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The student’s in Ms. Febres’s 7′th grade Spanish classes video conferenced with students from...
Google Earth has been available as a free download for computers and mobile devices...
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Our high school business department had a special guest visit them today. We hosted...
I had the opportunity this week to work with a middle school French class. The current curriculum was addressing occupations. The students were being introduced to the vocabulary associated with this topic. Students in the class were assigned the task of researching and presenting a final project that documents what they learned about their...
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I have written about the Khan Academy many times in my blog postings. It is a tremendous resource and one that I believe can greatly impact student achievement. The “flip the classroom” model of instruction involves having students review teacher or student made tutorials at home for homework. They then work on applying problems...
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Webcams have been a part of many classrooms for a number of years. The most common use is for video conferencing. Webcams open up the classroom to the world by allowing classes to communicate and collaborate with authors, subject area experts and other classrooms around the world. I have a wiki page with more...
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What do you do when workbooks, handouts, and class problem sets are not connecting with your students? What do you do for those students who have a solid understanding of a topic before you begin the lesson? How are you differentiating for them? Can you address the needs of your advanced students as well...
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There is a new phenomenon occurring in classrooms, workshops and meetings. It is called back channeling. This refers to participants in a event communicating and collaborating with technology to take notes, ask questions and reflect in real-time. A great tool to accomplish this is the website Today’s Meet. In order to get started you...
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There is a new paradigm shift occurring in classrooms. Many of the most innovative teachers are turning the traditional K-12 classrooms upside down in an effort to individualize the learning experience for students. They are “Flipping” the classroom in order to make classroom instructional time more valuable to students. “Flipping” the classroom refers to...
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I have recently been involved in a initiative in Jefferson Township Schools to design and develop an interactive Pyramid of Intervention. The pyramid is used to supplement our district work on PLC’s. The goal of the pyramid is to provide an interactive resource that teachers can access to uncover instructional strategies and specific interventions...
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Have you been to the Google Docs template gallery lately. If you have, you will notice that the available templates are continuing to grow. I recently searched for a template that could be used to create a fictitious Facebook Profile. The first returned result ended up being exactly what I was looking for. Take...
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The website Read Write Think has a fantastic tool available to help teach letter writing. They have provided an interactive letter writer. Here is a description taken directly from their website: “The Letter Generator tool is designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and...
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Writing in the 21st century has gone digital. We are keyboarding instead of applying penmanship. We post to message boards, blogs, emails, twitter accounts, corporate intranets, Facebook and various other web-based sites and services. Writing has also become 3 dimensional. You don’t need the latest pair of 3D glasses to experience three dimensional writing....
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