To Embrace you First Must Let Go
Let's pose a hypothetical situation. Let's say that you decided today that you were going to fully embrace technology integration into your classroom. Then you and Doc Brown were able to travel in time to 2 years from today to see how your classroom has changed. I bet...
The Train is Leaving… But Who’s Driving?
Choo choo, chug chug! From what I've seen and experienced in the world of international schools there are schools that run the gamut with regard to jumping on the train of technology implementation and integration. You as a teacher have undoubtedly grown with regard...
Vowel Prezi
I created a "Vowel Prezi" to use with my kinder class. Have look at the Prezi and corresponding lesson plan. Any feedback is welcome! .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Vowels on Prezi Here is the corresponding lesson plan:
October Break
Last week my kinder class decided that they wanted to share what they did over the October break with other kinder classes that they converse with via Twitter and our classroom blog. They decided to share a bit about what they did using a VoiceThread. They have used...
Increasing Visual Literacy in My Classroom
This course in media literacy has come at the perfect time for me. It's just the motivations I needed to start implementing some tools I've been meaning to incorporate into my classroom. As a kindergarten teacher images play an important part in what we do in the...
Come Ride With Me
I constantly get questions about what it's like to work, live, and play in Indonesia and more specifically on island of Borneo. My last post was an attempt to tell a bit of a our story using images. This post I will use a different medium, video. If you have read this...
Traveling to School
This is my contribution to a challenge that was in my understanding started by Keri-Lee Beasley (@klbeasley). I came to it through Tim Bray (@tsbray) and his blog. It sounded like a fun and interesting way to open a small window into our lives so I decided to give it...
A New (for me) Way to Add Images to a Document
Last night I was putting together a quick tutorial document to help out a friend. He had asked me a question and the easiest way for me to answer it was to take a couple screen shots and drop them in a Pages document and shoot it off to him. While I was doing this I...
What is Google Calendar Asking Me?
The other day I opened my Google Calendar and a bar popped up asking me wether or not I wanted to use Google Calendar to open all web calendar links? I wasn't sure exactly what this meant so I decided to find out. If you click the "Learn More" link it will take you to...