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Author Archives: Aly Tapp
Day Six Deals for the Dead of Winter
FOR EVERYONE: Google Tools for School: Jen Dorman (“cliotech“) compiled this comprehensive list of resources for understanding and using Google Earth. The educational applications are abundant for all grade levels and subjects. Each link takes the user to a video … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged administration, art, English, Google, math, Science, Tutorials, world language
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Santa Visits Recipe for Time
Santa Claus dropped by with some excellent Web resources for all of us. Check it out! FOR ADMINISTRATORS: 5 Internet Technologies That School Administrators Need to Know About — Teachers will certainly follow when administrators “go first” and model effective … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged Best Practices, English, math, Moodle, Science, social media, social studies, Tools, Tutorials
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Day Six Deals
Happy Thanksgiving! Among the many things we have to be thankful for, let’s also be thankful that as educators, we’re in the business of life-long learning. We don’t appreciate it when our students say silly things like, “I just don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged Best Practices, English, Google, math, money, Science, social studies
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Day Six Deals — Something for Everyone!
For ALL: Online College Courses List of the 100 Best Educational YouTube Channels — This list is outstanding, and in these specialty channels on YouTube, there is truly something for everyone. You can access college lectures from top universities, interviews … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged English, math, Science, social studies, Tools
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Best Practices Academy — October — The Technical Take
On October 14, Denise Fuhrman once again presented a session of The Best Practices Academy, focusing this time on assessment. York Suburban teachers can access her resources by going to her module on the Docs server (login is required). The … Continue reading
Best Practices Academy — the Technical Take
Congratulations to Denise Fuhrman for completing the first YS Best Practices Academy! Denise presented strategies to increase student meta-cognition, particularly as they engage with text. In this particular blog post, I would like to offer the “technical take” — the … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged Best Practices, Google, Moodle, screencasting, SMART
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Summer Training Brings Hot Ideas
I have had the distinct pleasure of working with a great group of teachers this week in the Intermediate Moodle Workshop at YS. We spent the first day learning about effective management techniques in Moodle — quick ways to post … Continue reading
Day Six Deals — April 15, 2010
Many Apples for the Teachers! FOR EVERYONE Alan November’s Explanation of Student Contribution: Read this very short article about why it is important for kids to own the task, and six ways that you can make it happen in your … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged Best Practices, English, Google, math, money, music, Science, SMART, social studies, Tutorials, Video
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What’s Wrong With This Argument?
I have recently had several conversations with various educators about the assertion that technology fosters irresponsibility and laziness in our students. Their line of reasoning goes like this: When teachers post notes and class materials in Moodle, they make it … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning on Your Mac
The weather is lovely and your Mac is a mess. Files everywhere! Time for some spring cleaning. Want an easy way to aggregate all files by a certain name/date created/contents so you can MOVE TO TRASH in one fell swoop? … Continue reading
