Discovery’s DENbrarians are getting their YA “book on” every month! Wanna join us? Welcome to our book club- EVERYONE is invited! You do NOT have to be a Library Media Specialist to join this group- …you just have to love great Young Adult books! We began last month with The One and Only Ivan. All [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative. Post 4: Carts I cannot tell you how important it is to order carts ahead of time! We ordered these carts: Bretford PowerSync Cart for iPad 2 Simultaneous charge, sync, and security for up to 30 iPad devices. Designed for organizations managing iPad devices, the [...]
We’re excited about all the Media Specialists and lovers of YA books who have signed up to be DENbrarians! Fill out THIS FORM if you want to be added as a DENbrarian to help gather resources for this and future books! April’s pinboard is going strong with the 2013 Newbery Award winning The One and [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative. Post 3: Create Committees We created 4 committees to help manage our 1:1 iPad initiative project. Here are the committees and the major tasks each accomplished. The steering committee members also served on at least one sub-committee. 1. Steering Committee- we called this “iPals” 2. [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative (Part 2) See my original post from March 25 for the complete list of points in this series! Part 2: Start a shared planning blog. It does NOT have to be “pretty”! It just needs to be a warehouse of information. Start a blog to [...]
Everything I know about rolling out a 1:1 iPad initiative (Part 1) I’ll have a series of blog posts about my experience for anyone who wants to embark on the 1:1 journey! I’ll expand on each bullet point below in my next posts and share everything I have created. Stay tuned! We’ve worked for over [...]
So how was YOUR Valentine’s Day? How was mine, you ask? Considering the fact that I was standing behind the President of the United States of America while he gave a speech, mine was pretty nice. Yep… the entire city of Decatur, Georgia, and City Schools of Decatur- a fantastic public system just outside Atlanta, [...]
Decatur, Georgia is home to independent book store Little Shop of Stories. It’s a local and inter-galactic favorite. Book fans of all sorts converge on Little Shop and Decatur each September thanks to our incredible book festival. The store’s fantastic On the Same Page initiative promotes one book per year that the entire community reads… [...]
Super Awesome Massive List of Websites You’ll Love! Thanks, edjudo, for compiling the original list that I enhanced. You rock. 280 Slides– Create PowerPoint style presentations online (free) 4Shared- An online storage site allowing you to upload and share music, photos, video and documents (free 10GB) 5min Life Videopedia – Short instructional videos for every [...]
Can’t attend ISTE 2012 in person? Now there are three ways you can access our conference program remotely, for a small fee. Whether you’re looking to sample a whole day’s worth of sessions or dive deep into a particular topic, you can experience the same great content that conference attendees receive—without leaving home or paying [...]
Try some creative fund raising for your classroom! I know teachers who have had success with “Donors Choose“. You can also post your classroom at “Adopt a Classroom“, or even set up “registry” supply lists at sites like Amazon or office supply stores. Don’t forget Discovery Education’s Kathy Schrock who maintains a list of grant [...]
Summertime is TREASURE HUNTING Time! The Georgia State Historic Sites History Trail geocaching game is underway- you can ‘Get Out. Get Dirty. And Get Fit.’ in a Georgia Historic Site this summer! It’s time to grab your cell phone, comfortable shoes, and a buddy – let’s go Geocaching! A few weeks ago the Georgia Discovery [...]
I am so proud that I won a DENny award from The Discovery Educator Network– for my blogging work and help at Georgia DEN events. I think DEN member David Andrade said it best when he said the DENny Awards are the Oscars for Discovery Education. So once more– If you haven’t joined the DEN [...]
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Creative Writing Teachers REJOICE! Remember the good times we had watching “Pop Up Video” on VH1 (or am I totally showing my age…?) The VH1 site has an option to make your own Pop Up Video subtitles to some popular videos- but that might not work for most (read ‘all’) classrooms…. An alternative I found [...]
Here’s the list of 2012-2013 nominees and author or publisher websites/blogs. (N) indicates that the title is available on Nook reader. Some titles are more appropriate for mature or Middle Grades audiences. Davis, Eleanor Secret Science Alliance And The Copycat Crook Greenwald, Lisa My Life In Pink & Green [...]
Dear Diary 2.0 ~ with PENZU http://penzu.com/ and http://penzu.com/classroom Penzu is an online journaling program with numerous features for you or your students. Some features are free, such as password protection for journals, and some advanced features (such as mobile device access) are included in the Penzu PRO 19.00 per year fee. After signing up- [...]
Check out these Delicious Web Apps! Bake up a Time Line Simmer those Keyboarding Skills! Stir up a STORY w/ Zimmer Twins! Sautee a MOVIE with DVOLVER! Share a Delicious Feast of Knowledge w/ Qwiki!
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world TED.com– http://www.ted.com/ “TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in [...]
This is a great online visual collection of decorating ideas for children’s rooms, classrooms, displays, bulletin boards, etc. – Izzyshare.
I’ve started using the free site “Sign Up Genius“ http://www.signupgenius.com/ in many areas of my life. My students can sign up for appointments with me (see a sample) , staff members can sign up for professional learning, parents can sign up for volunteer opportunities, etc. The site has numerous templates and three types of survey styles: [...]
Georgia Public Broadcasting has a fantastic blog called ‘Passion For Learning’– I was a guest blogger last week. Click here to check out my post about QR codes! A teacher at my school read my post on Saturday and by Monday afternoon she had used QR codes in an interactive classroom display. Students wrote ‘Geometry [...]
Slavery by Another Name is a PBS documentary which explores a system of “neo-slavery” that thrived following the Civil War based on forced labor of imprisoned African American men and women through the convict lease system. A free teacher workshop will be held Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012, from 9am-3pm at the Atlanta Neighborhood School, 688 [...]
I am a bit obsessed with screen savers and desktop images. I love to ponder about what a desktop image or screen saver says about the owner of the device. We used to think that what a person drives says a lot about them– to me, it’s all about what’s on their virtual desktop. In [...]
Pearltrees is a FREE online collaboration and organizational tool that provides a structure for teachers or students to gather, share, and organize resources. Your links, or “pearls”, are connected into “trees” and can be easily embedded onto a website, blog, or Facebook/Twitter account. I quickly searched and found fantastic pearltrees for DISCOVERY EDUCATION, TEACHER TECHNOLOGY, [...]
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