Ned’s Keeper

Herman Lawson Elementary School in McKinney ISD spent the day showing off how kids are learning these days. Many of you may have heard of the term Augmented Reality. Well, that’s exactly what the kids are experiencing. Letters Alive is a letter learning program that uses flashcards with document style camera called a 3cam.  When [...]

Yesterday, Region 10 had their 2011 Technology Conference. At the beginning of the conference, it was announced that the twitter #hashtag for the conference would be #r10tech. As I typed in my first twitter post with the hashtag, I heard those around me asking what a hashtag was and I even heard one person say, [...]

Like many typical medium size communities, McKinney ISD holds a good school district rating in the state of Texas with a Recognized status. The town of McKinney was named by Money Magazine this year as one of the top 5 places to live in America, and it really does have a wonderful small town atmosphere. [...]

If you have ever struggled with learning or teaching fractions, or tried to think of the many multitude of ways to look at fractions, have I got the game for you. Motion Math is a fun interactive game that allows students to learn fractions in a engaging and interactive way. As an adult playing a [...]

As a Discovery user for years, I would have never guessed that I could be any more excited about where Discovery is headed. I am a fan of all things discovery and believe that they do many things right! And guess what? They have stepped up and knocked it out of the park again! Discovery’s [...]

There is so much to say about our amazing Summer Institute in Boston this year. If you didn’t get to go, I strongly recommend you submit an application to attend next year. There were many things to talk about outside of the conference topics, the most popular discussions were related to the unending stairs at Bentley University [...]

So yesterday, I started to research new and exciting sites that include math activities for students to practice their skills at home. What I found is that in just two years, the games and websites have multiplied ten-fold. I was very impressed with the games and ended up challenging myself to a few. What I [...]

If you would like more information and the actual pieces I used during my presentation online today, please free to visit my earlier blog post http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/ldaughrity/2008/10/29/region-iv-conference/. I have quite a few samples including the original from Beth: Click-Clack-Moo. What a wonderful idea she had with this project. I hope that by sharing it with you all, [...]

After months… okay well over a year, I finally got a message from my husband on twitter. He joined! He doesn’t really get it, but he’s trying it. Last night I caught him on his phone reading another’s tweets and I thought, “he may actually be getting it. We’ll see.” He wants to understand all of this [...]

Here is just another reason why I want to visit Australia. Come visit me on Saturday, we’ll be dining by candlelight! Hopefully, I can inspire some of my students to do so as well this week during our morning announcements!