Try something new for the start of school this year. Here are some suggested activities form some leaders in education. There are suggestions about seating assignments as well as thoughts for making new students feel at home in your room. Robert Byrne: http://bit.ly/13JIv6T Tom Barrett – 36 Ways to get to know your class better: http://bit.ly/14Bkvsx Edudemic
The End – Today is our First Teacher Day!
Today is our first teacher day! So this will be a simple idea and not time consuming! I confess, I am a gamer. I have been obsessed with Angry Birds, Candy Crush, Solitaire, PopWords, Sunny Seeds, and Word Warp. I like puzzles that have a definitive goal and ending. My son likes FPS (first person shooter)
3 Days Remaining Until My School Begins – Crowd Sourced Materials
If you have been following along then you will love today’s resource! By this point you should be working on creating a PLN, a Twitter account, a blog and more. The idea is to learn and contribute. Tom Barrett has produced a series of “Interesting Ways…” documents that are crowd sourced ideas. You will see
2 Days: Getting Started With Geocaching :{o
I am not an expert geocacher. I am a novice and have only found about 15 caches over 4 years. Most of those were found at DENSI events. But I love being outdoors, searching for a goal and finding a prize. Geocaching is the largest cooperative game being played worldwide. There are great resources out
4 Days Remain: Discovery to the Rescue!
Does your school have a subscription to DiscoveryEducation? In years past our state of Pennsylvania paid for this resources for students and teachers to use in the classroom. That changed and now our Intermediate Unit coordinates the purchase of these services for schools. I cold write a blog post each day for a year and
5 Days Remaining: Augmented Reality for Newbies :)
Wikipedia explains augmented reality as “…a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data…..in which the view of reality or real life is digitally modified” Think of this as if you are looking at a flower and someone places a transparency
Day 8 before my summer ends :( – BINGO!
B I N G O ! What do you think of? Bingo is a game that kids can play as soon as they recognize numbers. I have seen BINGO games with photos, clipart and letters as well. I created BINGO cards to use with teacher training this year. The real challenge for teachers, will be
10 Days Remaining in My Summer! – Wolfram Alpha
I have heard of this site before, but really did not have any ideas about how to use it. After attending workshop with Jim Gates, he shared some fun ideas for any classroom. WA is a mix of search engine and computation. If you wanted to know how much caffeine was in tea the search
11 Days Remaining! Bookmark Keepers
For each of the days of August I will share some simple ideas you can use in your classroom. Try them before school begins so you have time to explore all of the ways you can integrate these skills into early lessons. Where do you keep your bookmarks? On your school computer or your home
9 Days Remaining – Create a PLN
How on earth will you improve your teaching style, resources, connections to other educators, find out what is current in your field or even contribute to others if you do not have a PLN (professional learning network)? Do you read at least 2 journals in your field? Have you attended a workshop about your curriculum
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