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Creating a Digital Project In a Literature Class, #DLDay
1873 Portrait of Charlotte Brontë Painted by Evert A. Duyckinck, based on a drawing by George Richmond Do you ever want to experiment with technology and open educational resources in literature...
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February's #blogamonth topic is Culture - school culture, classroom culture, community of growth and learning, culture shifts in school districts, etc. After a crazy month, I'm glad I can sneak this...
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That Perfect Class
I hate professional development videos. They always seem to feature the perfect classes. You know the ones - all the students are behaving, listening intently to the teacher, actively engaged in what...
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To Tech, or Not To Tech?
I try to do a lot of things with tech in my classroom - everything from simple replacement of paper worksheets with online documents to completely transforming how my students use technology to learn....
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Re-discovering a Capital-P Passion
I've just started reading @burgessdave's book, Teach Like a PIRATE. I've only just finished the first section (who knew PIRATE was an acronym?!), but am really enjoying it. I find it to be an...
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Culminating Project: Scavenger Hunt!
I've been really intrigued, lately, by the idea of having students create a product for someone other than me (the teacher, the evaluator). For our math culminating project, I decided to do something a...
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Plans, Plans, Plans
The #blogamonth topic for July is setting our goals for the new school year. Not just any goals, but - in the facilitators' own words - "BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS!!"I love the summer because (among...
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Coffee Club
A long time ago, from some book of which I've long since forgotten the title, I read about a teacher who had a sandwich station at the back of her classroom. It wasn't anything fancy - just a loaf of...
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#10GoodThings
I absolutely loved the frankness and honesty in @stoodle's blog post on Exorcising Teacher Demons. @MrOrr_geek took this one step further and started #10GoodThings - a list of, well, ten good things...
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Why blog?
This blog post is part of a 10-day blogging initiative started by @tina_zita back in January. I saw some amazing blog posts from many colleagues during the initial challenge, but wasn't able to...
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