Ned’s Keeper

I just can’t get this Discovery Student Adventures out of my head… Aaaaah! So, I did a search this morning on it to get the dates again and I found the new site. WOW! I felt so honored to see Phillipe Cousteau on the front of it talking. “Hey, I just had dinner with him,” [...]

It’s about that time of year were I start dreaming of next year. I have two big projects I intend to carry out next year, but I just need to do the lesson plans for them. So like all good teachers, I am procrastinating and writing in my blog. It sounded like the right thing [...]

Well it’s coming up quickly and I am scrambling to get all of the last minute details put together. I will be doing the presentation called “Kinders Can do Powerpoints Too!” again, with my friend Kristine. But, I will also be doing a new presentation about our summer camp. I think it has turned out [...]

Google Earth is doing some pretty cool stuff these days to help us learn about history! I came across this article about Ancient Rome and how Google Earth is revitalizing the city virtually. I am so excited about the things technology can do for the classroom and I just love to see children making us [...]

I received this in an e-mail this week and opened it because it is from the high school in my old hometown. I think it is a fabulous explanation and think the student did a great job using simple animation to explain something very complex. Great Job!

Last week I taught a class on using Google Earth with literature in the classroom. I know there are a million ways to incorporate it, so I decided to find a way to make a not-so-fun read more exciting. I picked up a book called Nathan Hale. For an adult, it is a very easy and [...]

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I found this very interesting video created by a person in my PLN. I thought I would share his interesting research with you. If you miss something or if you need to pause it, just hover over the movie at anytime and click on pause. I had to rewind and pause several times to catch [...]

I decided to do some mini-tutorials for the teachers at my school. I thought I would share them with all of my DEN friends and let you use them in your trainings as well. In many of my early tutorials, I used the free software that is available online called JING Project. I probably should [...]

So, after writing the last blog, I thought I would follow it up with another useful post. Feel free to comment and add more to my list after reading it if you have used it in a different way. In class this week, I challenged my students to learn and use Wordle. With very little [...]