Comments for Mr. Walker's Technology Blog

Comment on Are you ready to FLIP the classroom? by julie

julie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:09:06 +0000

If they won’t do homework at home, will they view the instruction at home? How does this fall in equity standings – do all students have access?

Comment on Oral Assessments With Phones by hector aguilera

hector aguilera — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:56:38 +0000

It’s a genius form to use the technnology. Go ahead, this ideas can help us into Latinoamerica for the developed the teaching metod.

Comment on No Technology Until High School? by Stephanie Y

Stephanie Y — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:59:25 +0000

It’s hard to fully agree with either one of those views. Making sure students are exposed to a hands-on learning experience is important, but it would be a disservice if schools didn’t keep up with what’s happening in technology and education.

There is one constant, though – even if it is high-tech, kids still don’t like going to school

Comment on Guided Reading Groups Cross State Lines by Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:07:46 +0000

I am so excited to try this with guided reading groups. This takes collabortive learning to a new high. I love this and am so glad you shared this great idea!

Comment on Can Webcams Improve Reading Fluency? by admin

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:41:53 +0000

Hi Karen. I will be testing this in a number of classrooms next school year. We will be collecting data on the results. If you decide to give it a try I would love to share the results and data.

Comment on Can Webcams Improve Reading Fluency? by Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:53:59 +0000

I love, love this idea! What a great way to use technology to motivate your students to read and improve their fluency. I really like that they can record themselves and then play back the recording and observe their errors and also their improvements. Nice! KSC

Comment on Digital Writing – Start with a Purpose and Audience – RAFT by Kim Walker

Kim Walker — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:25:43 +0000

My teachers loved RAFT!

Comment on Are we teachers? by Mrs Daggett

Mrs Daggett — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:59:53 +0000

Reflection is the most valuable component of instructional process. Thank you for your thoughts.

Comment on Interactive and Collaborative Story Writing Smartboard Lessons by zach

zach — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:04:23 +0000

A great activity for students is to collaboratively write a story together. A great website that offers this functionality is Write in the Clouds . It's completely free and the stories can be written in real-time!

Comment on Comic Writing With Make Beliefs Comix by Bill Zimmerman

Bill Zimmerman — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:00:57 +0000

Dear Mr. Walker,
Thank you so much for sharing our site, MakeBeliefsComix.com, with your readers. I am so glad you find the site useful, and would welcome any suggestions you and your readers might offer to help make the site more useful and fun for youngsters. Such information is very useful to us. I’d love to hear how you and your readers are using it with your students.
All good wishes,
Bill Zimmerman
Creator, MakeBeliefsComix.com