Low-Hanging Fruit: NitroType to Grow Student’s Typing Skills

A dear colleague, Mariel Slater, is moving on from the school where we teach. I have learned much from her, and deeply respect her knowledge, her teaching strategies, and the joyful care with which she teaches children.

She has asked for a meeting so she can write down some of the ways I differentiate instruction […]

wikiPlaces Lives On!

Back in 2006 when public wiki platforms were young, I came across one that stood out of the pack for its beauty. It was called WetPaint. When it finally opened for use, I created a open-ended project for classes called wikiPlaces. It took the well-used idea of an alphabet book and moved it to the […]

Showcasing Student Learning Online

One of my quests this year was to develop an online showcase for student projects. Five years ago, most digital student projects were word processed documents that could be printed out, or Powerpoint presentations that could be presented or printed.

Now in addition to those formats, we have podcasts, videos, Bitstrips, Voicethreads, Glogs, and other […]

How Would You Share Student Work Online?

We had the great good fortune to have Alan November at our school for two days. One thing he said we should implement right away was an archive of student work to help teachers see what can be done.

I have been planning on setting something like that up since school started. I wanted it […]

Differentiating Instruction

One of the many great practices I observed at the American School of Bombay during ASB Unplugged 2010, was differentiation in action. One method of differentiating was allowing students to choose how they shared their learning. Sometimes they had to choose from a number of different tools (e.g. a presentation, a poster or a written […]

Tech Tools for Writing – Survey Results

This term I was planning on teaching three optional staff tech integration workshops around the theme of tech tool for writing. I posted a survey on my blog requesting suggestions and I received really useful responses.

Here is a HUGE thank you to all who responded. Not only did I use many of the […]