Tag Archive | education
5 Free Digital Resources for Math Teachers
The internet is full of great resources for math teachers, but often it’s difficult to find the time to dig through and find the best ones for your students. Today’s post focuses on some free resources to help math students visualize difficult concepts and manipulate numbers and variables to discover the language of mathematics. 1. Geogebra Geogebra is […]
Edtech Resource of the Week – BioDigital Human
Those of you who know me are likely aware that I am a fan of the Google Chrome web browser. So today’s resource comes from the Chrome Web Store, and you will need to download Google Chrome if you don’t have it yet – it’s free. I stumbled upon the BioDigital Human web application in the Chrome […]
Four Online Tools for Collaboration
Collaboration is an important skill our student’s must learn in order to be successful in today’s world. This post takes a look at 4 online tools that can be used to facilitate collaboration with your students, both within the walls of your own school as well as globally as you collaborate with other classrooms. 1. Google […]
Five Things to Do at FETC 2012
FETC is around the corner, and like many others, I am excited for the opportunities to network with amazing educators, attend thought provoking sessions, and learn about new products and services in the edtech realm. Conferences can be overwhelming, especially for newcomers! So I wanted to offer some tips to help others get the most […]
Edtech Resource of the Week
I was having fun with digital storytelling this week, and wanted to share a resource for creating 3D pop-up books, Zooburst. This is a great website for elementary aged students to express their creativity through storytelling. Check out an example story below – be sure to check it out in fullscreen. Taking it a step […]
Student Centered Learning
This week, I stumbled across a wiki my former 2nd grade students and I created during my last year in the classroom, and it evoked two reactions for me. First, it made me nostalgic for the joy of watching my students learn, and second, it strengthened my belief that today’s classrooms need to be student-centered […]
Web App of the Week – 3DTin
I’m always on the lookout for great new web applications that can serve an educational purpose, and was happy to stumble upon 3DTin today at the Google Chrome Webstore. 3DTin is a digital design program that allows you to create three dimensional objects out of some basic shapes, including cubes, cylinders, cones, wedges, and spheres, […]
Bridging the Educational Gaps
For the past several months, I have been determined to begin blogging again, but have continually run into excuses (some genuine, others… I was just being lazy.) Tonight, I will finally cross this off of my to-do list! It took me a while to decide on a theme for the blog. Those of you who […]
