Posted in 21st century classroom, education, mashup on Mar 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Each spring our 5th graders complete a bridge building exercise. Working in teams, students take on the jobs of accountant, engineer, designer, and builder. Their task is to build a bridge out of toothpick, within a budget, and that can stand on its own. The bridge that can hold to most weight wins. The students [...]
Posted in education, literacy, mashup, publishing, technology, writing on Mar 8th, 2009 No Comments »
With the emergence of Web 2.0 tools and a greater presence of computers at all grade levels balancing tactile and digital experiences in the classroom has become a even bigger challenge. Now “cut and paste,” creativity, and visual literacy have dual skill sets, application, and roles in student learning. How, as teachers, do we provide [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, mashup, publishing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Thanks to Amy Mayer, a guest blogger for Free Technology for Teachers, for recommending Glogster, an online poster creation tool. Not only did I register for an account for me, I could request up to 200 student logins. In my humble opinion this feature alone make Glogster one of the most brilliant of all Web [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, writing on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Back in July I Silvia Tolisano’s blog Langwiches led me to Mixbook. After reading the FAQs I signed up for an account, gave the site a brief workout, tagged it in my Delicious account, and didn’t revisit the tool until today. It’s not that I didn’t agree with Silvia’s recommendation and review of the site [...]
Posted in Web 2.0, education, technology on Jul 17th, 2008 No Comments »
StudyStack http://www.studystack.com/Home.jsp
This is one of those great finds that gets better and better as you dig into the site. StudyStack is a free online tool that provides teachers and students a place to create both interactive and printable flashcards resources. What StudyStack does better than cueFlash or Quizlet is that is provides the user of [...]
