Great design for an high school science classroom.
Ideas on using technology to run a scavenger hunt.
Another option to inserting equations into Google Docs.
Depending on how knowledgeable you are, you might have heard about all of the aforementioned. Even if you have, the question is how well do you know all of them? Would you be comfortable explaining to a complete novice what all of these are at a high level and be sure that you aren’t skewing…
But if students are not properly equipped to direct their own learning, then what? “We created the profession we call ‘teaching’ largely to solve for this problem,” he dryly observes: “Students need to be guided down the path of their learning. Teachers should remain central to the activity of imparting knowledge to students.” From my…
Free icons to use for badges from OpenClipart OpenClipart has some great choices to help you create badges or other graphics for your classroom. Giving privacy for better behavior When always watching, there may be some consequences when you’re not watching. Keep your accounts safe with two factor authentication What is two-factor authentication and why…
WordPress.com has released an add-on for Google Docs that allows saving a Google Doc as a draft. To get started, you will need to install add-on for Google Docs. For self-hosted WordPress sites, you will also need a WordPress.com username and have the WordPress Jetpack plugin installed. WordPress.com users already have this set up. After…
This week it’s all about the teachers hacking their own learning. 1. Blogging (13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning) Using blogging to share, publicize, and reflect. 2. Use Twitter (13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning) Teachers can use Twitter to collaborate, publicize, and reflect. 3. Participate in a Twitter chat (13 Ways Teachers…
The view of US education as seen through teacher resignation letters Depressing look at the teaching profession. Formative is a free service for performing formative assessments in your classroom Another option for performing formative assessments in your classroom. Use the Unpaywall Chrome or Firefox extension to access research papers for free Access freely available research…