We run several classroom blogs and professional sites, including this blog on using educational technology in the classroom. Mostly we use WordPress, but lately we’ve been experimenting with bulleting boards (phpBB) for our online literature circles. You can only go so far with free accounts, whether they’re with Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs, or Wikispaces. Eventually, you […]
Make Money Online in the Classroom
If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results. When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the […]
Classroom Technology – Where does the funding come from?
Classroom technology is great… but where do we get the money to fund the educational technology? I would like to have a class set of laptops for my Grade 7 and 8 students to use: 4 Reasons why I would like to have a class set of laptops How much will a class set of […]
Classroom Clickers (SMART Student Response System)
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 […]
WordPress Plugins we use on our School Website
We haven’t posted recently because we’ve been busy experimenting with educational technology for the classroom, instead of simply writing about it. It turns out that one of our colleagues has a kindergarten student who has his own free blog. Apparently, he reports on the classroom activities and uses exclamation marks quite liberally in his writing. […]