Right now I’m lucky enough to be collaborating with the amazing educators, Michelle Hiebert and Jason Graham. They’ve invited my class to work on creating a collaborative book. The idea is for one class to write a bit and then pass it on to the next class...
I’ve finally ditched my SmartBoard. I have to admit that I’ve never been a big fan of my SmartBoard to begin with, so parting ways with it wasn’t particularly difficult. To be fair though I have to say that I have enjoyed certain things it has...
I wanted to share this presentation about different ways Skype can be used in the classroom. This presentation came to me by way of (funny enough) a conversation on Skype. I am mostly a lurker in a conversation that goes on 24/7 between 153 educators all over the...
Last December I came across a tweet about a collaborative project around 12/12/12. (I think it was a tweet from Anne Mirtschin, @murcha) My class was lucky enough to participate in this very cool global collaboration project. The project was spearheaded by a person...
One of my new favorite apps is Printopia! It allows to you print from your iPad or iPhone to any printer you use with your computer. With any knew thing I use it must not complicate or add time to what I already do. We teachers are busy enough! The beauty of this app...
A while ago I wrote a post about how I use Evernote and Skitch to allow my students to have some control over what goes into their digital portfolio. Since I wrote that post I have refined my process a bit and both Skitch and Evernote have gone through some updates. I...
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