Classroom clickers are a piece of educational technology that allows you to get your students more involved. You put up a question on your computer and students use the classroom clickers to vote in their answers. SMART technologies has a SMART Response student response system (formerly called Senteo) that has caught my attention. I’ve heard […]
Social Networking with Web 2.0
Our Google pagerank has dropped to a rank of two and we’re not sure why. Pagerank is Google’s opinion of how important a website is. The higher the pagerank, the more important Google (and apparently the world) thinks you are, and the higher you show up in a search listing. In a nutshell, Google is […]
Use Google Translate to Help Parents Understand What is Going On
Consider your own experiences with communicating with parents about your reading program. What are the key barriers to parent involvement in your teaching situation? Personally, I’m big on integrating technology into my classroom practice. Over the summer, I started a list of 101 ways to bring technology into the classroom (in meaningful ways). Not upto […]
WordPress Lessons
We’re in the process of finishing our first ebook on how to set up your school website or classroom blog using WordPress. Originally, we wanted to include step-by-step instructions on how to install WordPress as well as how to use WordPress. In the end, we decided to focus on providing step-by-step instructions on how to […]
Edublogs Scheduled Maintenance
We’re working on our free ebook with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a school website or classroom blog using WordPress, and hit a minor snag: Our edublogs.org account was down. Not a big deal, but what if you were in the computer lab and wanted to get your students to comment on each […]