Posted in Boolean, literacy, search engine on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Question: How do you find what your looking for when searching on the Internet? Answer: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords.
It wasn’t too many years ago that teaching how to build an Internet search criteria meant explaining Boolean operators, either as words or symbols. I remember having the poster “My plump starfish quickly lowered Lincoln’s tie” to help [...]
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 GoogleEarth, geography, literacy on Feb 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
Each year our 6th graders study the geography and countries of the Western hemisphere. In March they host an International Festival as a culmination of the studies. As part of their poster presentation are a series of graphs showing a comparison of growth indicators between their country and the United States. To help with [...]
Posted in 21st century classroom, Professional Development, Web 2.0, comic, literacy, publishing, writing on Jul 21st, 2008 1 Comment »
Miguel Guhlin over at his Thinkfinity Texas blog recently shared some great lessons at the ReadWriteThink site to guide teachers in using the graphic novel genre to help students develop their writing and literacy skills. If you have been looking for a way to bring comics and graphic novels into your ELA instruction ReadWriteThink [...]
Posted in 21st century classroom, change, literacy, writing on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been thinking about David Warlick’s blog “A Question of Authority”and his listener’s reaction to the idea of handing over to students the role of creating content for learning and the perceived lack of authority that may come from the student authorship. I wondered if maybe she was less worried about the authority, or accuracy, of [...]
