Infographics are quickly becoming “the way” to show information. Graphs and charts have always been used in the past, but an infographic is like a bar chart on steroids, with a number of charts, pictures, and text on one page. Some of them are quite lengthy and extend far beyond the end of the screen. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Students create infographics on easel.ly with ease
Posted in Online Tools, tagged creativity, education, infographics on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all in the rubric (just make sure there’s not too much)
Posted in Random Stuff, tagged education, poetry, rubrics on May 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
When assigning projects for course work, there is always a barrage of questions from students. They want to know what needs to be done and exactly how to do it. I am sure you know what I am talking about. In any class, there are one or two students who want the step by step [...]
That time of year
Posted in Random Stuff, tagged education, learning, school projects on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You know what I am talking about. The end is in sight. I teach two senior classes, and far as they are concerned, the year is already over. This is the time of year when many teachers put the classroom on auto-pilot and cruise in hoping not to crash before it’s all over. Snap out [...]
Show students their voice is heard
Posted in Online Tools, Why Tech?, tagged blogs, classroom, ed tech, education on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As a part of a 7th grade Current Issues class, my students watch CNN Student news a couple times a week. Usually, once a week, students have an opportunity to write on the A-Z Blog to give their opinion about a current news story. Generally the students enjoy the activity. This is in large part [...]
Pencil vs. computer in education: And the winner is….
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, technology on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In her recent article on Mashable, Sarah Kessler examines data from a one-to-one laptop program in Peru. The title of the article gives the final conclusion in the study: “2.5 million laptops later, one laptop per child doesn’t improve test scores.” This is a hard pill to swallow for those of us who spend everyday [...]
Focus of apps and educational technology at the elementary level
Posted in Random Stuff, Uncategorized, tagged e-learning, education, iPad, iPod, learning on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
At the Wyoming TEC conference last weekend, I sat through several sessions with presenters showing the best and newest educational apps for the iPod and iPad. There was a lot of excitement in these sessions with “oohs” and “aaahs” at every flash of the screen. I, on the other hand, found myself growing bored, not [...]
Academic rigor vs. student engagement
Posted in Random Stuff, Why Tech?, tagged education, learning, school on April 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This past week, I spent quite a bit of time preparing for presentations that I was giving at a conference. In both presentations, I was talking about different technology projects that enhance the learning experience for students, but before I got down to the meat of the sessions, I wanted to talk about they “why” [...]
Fake Facebook or Fakebook resource page
Posted in Online Tools, tagged edtech, education, learning, web 2.0 on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for an upcoming conference, I have finally compiled all of the fake Facebook (Fakebook) resources I have collected over the last year into one web page. Basically, the page is a compilation of all the blog posts I have written with the added perspective of using the app with several class since my [...]
Ask students what they know
Posted in Random Stuff, tagged ed tech, education, teaching on March 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Too often, teachers assume that because students spend inordinate amounts of time looking at a screen, they know how to work with technology. Teachers assume that students have it all figured out, that if given an assignment involving technology, students will figure it out or already know how to do whatever they have been assigned. [...]
Unused Technology
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, learning, web 2.0 on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know what technology your school has that is at your immediate disposal? I am guessing that there may be more than you think. There is a lot of money floating around today for technology in schools, more than most realize, and schools are using the money. One of the problems is keeping up [...]
