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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
Day Six Deals — April 7, 2010
I have a great batch of interesting and useful things in here to light your students’ imaginations. Enjoy! FOR ALL Readability Analyzer: Paste text and get the result — the readability of that particular text. Music for Projects: Choose from … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged career, Google, math, organization, SMART, Tools
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I Know I Saved It….Stupid Computers…..
Ever hear this from students? Ever say this yourself? While computers DO indeed sometimes malfunction, most times, the fault lies within us, the ones driving the machines. As we increase the number of files we collect digitally from students, we … Continue reading
Day Six Deals — March 21, 2010
Let get right to it! FOR EVERYONE: HeadMagnet: Another option for digital flashcards. This one tracks where the user needs more help. Newspaper Generator: You can quickly overuse this, but it does provide a nice way to publish news or … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged art, career, flip, guidance, math, world language
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Day Six Deals! February 2010
Another edition of Day Six Deals! Please note that you can subscribe to my blog via email now (look over to the left). I will still send notice when I post to the blog, but if you subscribe with email, … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary, High School, Middle School
Tagged English, math, Science, SMART, Tools
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