Online Whiteboards are a fantastic teaching tool, especially with touchscreen Chromebooks. They can be used to screencast, for digital assessments, to collaborate on an assignment, and much more. Here are some fantastic examples, find one that works for you: Kami- install the Kami extension to open a blank, lined, graph, or music sheet. Saves to […]
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Wakelet
Wakelet! I kept hearing about it at ISTE in June and seeing friends and colleagues blog about it, podcast about it, and take over Twitter sharing all the amazingness of Wakelet. Of course, I went forth and explored. I mean, I couldn’t ignore everyone’s advice. I found it to be a fantastic tool for collaborating, […]
Grasshopper Coding
If you have not accessed Grasshopper Coding yet, get on it. By no means am I a coder. After years of teaching coding concepts to elementary school students, I felt confident in the basics. When I wanted to make things with a Raspberry Pi, I learned Python, but only the elements I needed for each […]
Kami
The Kami extension in Google Chrome is quickly becoming one of my favorite tools. Kami allows you to annotate PDFs, documents, and images. It integrates directly with Google Drive. You can share and collaborate in a file. Users have the option to start with a file or begin with a Blank Paper Lined Paper Grid Paper Music […]
Veteran’s Day
Do your students know what Veterans Day is? Here is a fun mini PBL for students to learn about the day and design a memorial for their home town. Sixth graders were engaged through the entire project and designed amaingly thoughtful monuments. https://sites.google.com/millburn.org/veteransdaymonuments/home
Google Keep For Note Taking
When students are taking notes one of the hardest parts is getting them to record their sources at that moment. In all honesty, I am the same way. When you are on a roll, reading and taking notes, chasing down sources, finding new information, and getting new keywords, stopping to create an MLA or APA […]
Student Voice AND Admin Voice- Library Remodel Part 2
Looking for Library Remodel Part 1? Click here Who uses your space the most? … the students. When redesigning the library I had a goal, ask the students. This was going to be their space. We as educators also have ideas in mind of what we need but this was there going to be their […]
Disrupting Thinking
We as humans often get stuck in routines, even with our thinking. We do the same things, day after day, and expect things to change, to get better. As teachers, this happens with our teaching and it ends up extending out to our students. Sit in the same seats, take attendance, read this chapter, answer […]
Library Remodel- Part 1
This year I started my new job in an outdated high school library. The collection of almost 14,000 items had an average age of 1997. (This is after the previous Library Media Specialist weeded 10,000 books one year prior). The room itself is full of traditional wooden tables and chairs, and book stacks that took […]