12-12-12 A Moment in Time Google Presentation
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...
Using Printopia with iPads to Print and Add Student Work to E-Portfolios
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...
New and Improved!! How I Use Evernote and Skitch In Kindergarten for E-Portofolios
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...
Using Instagram to Encourage Writing in Kindergarten
I have recently created a class Instagram account. Since every student has their own iPad with the Instagram app installed I signed them all into the same account. I have made it a private account and accepted follow requests from only a select number of other early...
Unpacking My Thoughts on Learning 2.012
I have never been to a conference that was so full on from the get go as Learning 2.012 in Beijing this year. WOW!! From the time I arrived in Beijing on Wednesday morning until I flew out at midnight on Saturday night it was non stop action... but in a really good...
The Power of Connections
Jason Graham (@jasongraham) and I were giving an unconference at Learning 2.012 in Beijing about the power of "Twitter Chats" and in particular #kinderchat. I was talking about how increadibly meaningful and relevant chats can be and I just wasn't doing a good job of...
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 recently...
Kindergarten Students Help Build Evernote E-portfolios Using Skitch
At the end of last year I tested out using Evernote as a tool for building e-portfolios. You can read about it here. If you're not super familiar with Evernote you might want to start with reading that post. After testing Evernote for about 3 months I was impressed by...
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...