Voicethread Setup for Students

Our school has the great good fortune to have a Voicethread account for each student within our school account. This account follows our students from grade to grade. It plays well with our students’ Blogger blogs.

These student accounts were created during second semester last year. Most classes did not get a chance to use […]

Saving Trees, One Worksheet at a Time

Our school is implementing the enVision math program. Although it has a hard cover book for students, there are also 4 worksheets/games that go with each lesson. This is both hard on the earth because of all the paper it consumes, and hard on the teachers and students who need to manage all that paper.

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Siri Gets Religion or How I Set Up the iPhone to Read Aloud.

My sister’s church used to provide the sermons in MP3 format. I was able to put them on my MP3 player and listen to them while I walked.

This summer, when I went to download the next batch I found they were no longer available in MP3 format. Instead, they were PDFs. I […]

Achieving vs. Learning, or, Zero to 60 in 5 Months

I can’t stop thinking about this article which I read yesterday.

 

I am excited to see what children in a zero literacy village without electricity did with zero instruction with OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops. It is mind blowing. I would have loved to have heard the kids’ conversations as they figured […]

Four Easy Steps to Filter a Google Search by Reading Level

Google has a strange habit of hiding some of its best features. For example, there are a number of powerful filters you can apply to a search with just a few clicks. One filter that we are finding especially useful for children is the reading level search.

For our 8-through-11-year-olds we tell them to start […]

Stick-N-Find Stickers

 

@BrianLockwood alerted me to Stick-N-Find stickers a while ago. Looks like they are finally available for purchase.

I love seeing this type of powerful technology available for household use. I want to stick on one my husband the next time we go to IKEA. I also want one on my pedometer which occasionally […]