Genius hour is when students spend time during the school day exploring their own interests. Students decide upon a project and work towards their end products in the provided amount of time. Depending on the setting and available time from the teacher, this could be one hour a day, an hour a week, or whenever …
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Google Hangouts and Skype for educators
I have used both google hangouts and skype to connect with educators over the years. During my undergrad experience, I would skype with my professor and education team from time to time to check in. I also have used skype for conferencing calls every Tuesday for a phone bible study I attend with some friends. …
Twitter: Personal or Professional?
It would be hard to find a student who didn’t at least know what twitter was. The majority of this generation of students have a better handle on twitter than I ever will. Personally I have not used it twitter. After looking through the course material and researching twitter uses in the classroom, I can …
Perseverance and Failing Forward with Flickr
I find flickrs creative commons to be a great place to find photo resources and facts without the worry of copyright infringement. I have had a lesson plan being processed in my mind for a few weeks now on flight. Side note, my lesson plans do not usually take this long to hatch, there has …
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Podcasts for the classroom
The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast has so many great ideas for implementing project based learning into the classroom. I listened to several of the podcast on Project based learning and found all of them highly resourceful. Here is one called Unconventional Project Based Learning That Engages Students. During the podcast the speaker identifies processes, rationales, …
Collaborative learning in the classroom
Collaborative learning environments provide a wealth of ideas, aspects, and knowledge for all individuals. When students feel like they are in control of their learning they are more engaged. The different cultures, experiences, and philosophies are combined into one discussion where peers can learn from each other. For assignments, tasks can be split up where …
Weather Prediction and Social Bookmarking
Here is a link to my lesson plan where I incorporate social bookmarking into weather prediction. I chose this lesson plan because it was one in which I knew students needed to find creditable resources if they wanted to have an accurate prediction. Students will be working in small groups and utilizing the same couple …
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Using RSS in Education
I do not plan to use a RSS with my students. The learning platform that we utilize at my school has something similar built in. I could see myself using a RSS for personal growth. I enjoy reading and learning about new teaching practices, lessons, and activities. It always gets me excited about trying something …
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
I found the info page from educator’s technology particularly interesting. There was not a lot of information on the initial page, but you were linked to a slides presentation from a user named seyfert6. The presentation addresses 21 ways in which Edmodo can be used in the classroom. The slides are packed with Ideas and …
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Edmodo…for more than just teachers.
Jason Cunningham describes Edmodo as “Facebook for school” in his Education world article titled How to use Edmodo in the classroom. After a short introduction Cunningham describes in his article how different participants can utilize the tool. Beginning with teachers, he identifies the basic abilities of giving assignments, quizzes and polls to students. Teachers can …
Teaching and Learning Online 