Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
Within the next several weeks, I’ll be posting about several different topics I’ve used in class this year or am experimenting with right now. These are the areas I plan to cover:
- Using thatquiz.org in the classroom. A complete users guide.
- How to make a wiimote whiteboard and do something productive with it. [...]
On several blogs lately, I’ve been reading about Wordle. It allows you to make a tag cloud of pretty much any written work. Just paste in the text from a paper or web source and it gives you a visually stunning representation of the most used words in the piece. This is [...]
I came across another neat webpage editor on a couple of blogs a while ago. This one is called Webon. This is the most powerful online editor I’ve seen yet. It is simple and gives you lots of options for adding content. It allows you to embed code, upload [...]
If you’ve read this blog, you know I’m a big fan of Google Docs. This past spring, while I was coordinating our school science fair it went from a helpful tool to an essential tool.
During the science fair, my students completed experiments and did a lab writeup of their work. They typed up [...]
I love teaching geography and like to get my students to imagine what it would be like if they traveled to or lived in the places we study. One of the project I did earlier in the year, was have the students make a Europe travel journal. They had to research various destinations [...]