School districts around the nation are scrambling around trying to provide workshops on Common Core, most specifically on the instructional shifts. In many cases, districts are bringing in contracted experts to transfer their wisdom upon our teachers. This is all good, but I have found that teachers are still asking, “What does Common Core instruction read more
Meograph is an exciting new web application I recently discovered and have been testing out. I’m really excited about this as a tool for students to create multimedia-rich timelines. We’ve been using timeline tools, audio tools, Google earth/maps, images, and videos for quite a while now, but where have we seen all of the these read more
This just in… I just discovered a great web application that is free to use and oh, so right for classrooms. Socrative is a web-based application that can be used as a student response system to deliver formative or summative assessments. Socrative is free to use and it has an extremely, user-friendly interface. The students read more
If you are reading this, you probably already know that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is a major buzzword/trend in education right now. By allowing students to bring their mobile phones and devices to school, educators will be able to more readily engage students, as this is their desired learning platform. Plus you can just read more
Today’s web is filled with a variety of amazing applications that run right in your browser. These great web apps are usually free (at least to some degree), simple to use, and require no software installations. Take edmodo.com for example, the subject of my last post – this web app is free to use, runs read more
Remember the days when we had to code in HTML in order to create a classroom website? Remember those animated GIFs and all those crazy backgrounds? We’ve come a long way since then. Web applications have provided us with a point and click, drag and drop interface for creating websites without ever having to look read more
One of the newer trends in EdTech right now is the concept of “flipped classrooms”, where students consume lecture content, such as videos outside of the classroom, then apply what they have learned inside the classroom. This has many teachers recording their lectures and posting them online for consumption. Another common trend is recording your read more