Breathing New Life Into an Old Lesson Using iPads

I’ve been using iPads in a 1:1 fashion in my kindergarten classroom this year. My students and I have been finding fun, interesting, and mostly useful ways to use the iPads everyday in all areas of the curriculum. I wanted to share a brief example of how we...

How I Published to the iTunes Bookstore

I have recently published a book in the iTunes store. (Read about it here or here.) Some people have expressed interest in knowing how exactly I was able to do this. Well the good news is that it’s not very difficult. The bad news is that you have to get the...

Kindergarten Class Publishes eBook in the iTunes Bookstore

If you read this post then you know that my kindergarten class wrote a book in collaboration with another kindergarten class in Yokohama, Japan. We created an eBook using Book Creator for the iPad. While I’m not a super fan of this app it was simple to use and...

How I Use Evernote for Kindergarten Portfolios

I decided to try and build digital portfolios using Evernote in my Kindergarten classroom. I was thinking of doing this next year but though I’d give it a test run for the last trimester this year. That way if I found I didn’t work for me I would have all...

A Few “Techie” Tools I Use in My Classroom

I thought I’d share a couple things I use in my classroom on a daily basis. My hope is that as people read this post they will be inclined to leave a comment and share something they use regularly as well. I’m focusing on hardware but that’s not to...