Wednesday, February 29, 2012

What to do with photos

This website gives you ideas of things to do with your photos.  This doesn't have to be an iphone, etc way to do it.  You can have your students do this with pictures in class, or photos you give to them.


What to do with photos

Incredible Things that Happen on the Internet every Minute


Just found this interesting.

103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading | Reading Topics A-Z | Reading Rockets

This article/site gives very good ideas of things to do while teaching reading.  Karen liked looking at it and I think that it just reminds teachers of little things that you can do to help students understand.  Take a look!
103 Things to Do Before/During/After Reading

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Weebly

This is an online, easy to use website, that allows you (or students) to create their own website.  Like I said, it looks very easy and the kids would enjoy it.  The main site is listed below, but here's a site that explains it and also an example of a 5th grade classroom's site.
http://thinkshareteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/tech-tools-weebly.html
http://education.weebly.com/

Jim

Monday, February 13, 2012

Friday, February 3, 2012

Tech Skills students need to know

Internet Search
Office Suite Skills
Self learning of tech and where to go for help
Typing
Social Media
Netiquette
Security and Safety
Hardware basics and troubleshooting
Backing up data
Finding Apps and software
Bonus: Copyright and citing sources.
It gives examples of websites to help teach and learn more about each.