Ten Fantastic Apps for the English Classroom
iBooks – For obvious reasons, but you can keep an entire classroom set of textbooks on iPads. That is awesome! Evernote – We all hate notes, but we all love sharing and comparing notes, right?...
View ArticleWeek 11 Alternative: Implements a 1:1 technology program in a school of 500.
How much would it cost to implement a 1:1 iPad initiative? For a school of 500 students, it would cost about $200,000 How much would you save on text books? iPad textbooks cannot be more than $14.99...
View ArticleWeek 12 Reflection: The Nerdy Teacher
This week, The Nerdy Teacher, views a great video called “Suli Breaks” (below) on his April 24th post which you can read by clicking the logo above. This video is powerful. It speaks to me...
View ArticleWeek 13 Reflection: Blogging through the Fourth Dimension
Today, I blog beyond the third dimension. This site is actually really cool. Instead of focusing on hardcore education, BFD takes a step back and reminds us to calm down. The visitors of this site are...
View ArticleWeek 14 Reflection: Blogging through the Fourth Dimension
I’m revisiting the fourth dimension this week because I found this poem searching further back. Imagination The thing that kept me occupied For hours and hours Was something so valuable How come I...
View ArticleWeek 15 Reflection: Bianca Hewes
After scouring a few friends’ sites, I found something that really peaked my interest. Bianca Hewes has come up with original, cool ideas to organize a classroom. Here are the four. I really like the...
View ArticleThe DED318 iPad Experience
From what I could tell in class, the iPads were an overall success. Many of the students in our classroom seemed to handle them well and use them for in-class projects. One of the projects was to make...
View ArticleQuestion 1: Best Web Tools for Teachers
Text2MindMap Text2MindMap is a fantastic site that I found here (a list of best teacher tools from 2012). It’s an extremely user-friendly site that creates simple mindmaps and organizers in no time at...
View ArticleQuestion 2: Final Semester Favorites
1. Tagxedo Tagxedo is a brilliant site that makes word clouds. The more frequent the word, the larger the word. This is a site I’ve found creative and useful. In my field experience this semester,...
View ArticleQuestion 3: My ‘Wow’ Moment this Semester
This semester, I realized how much of a burden technology in the classroom can be. Half the time checking out these cool, interesting sites, I felt like this Classic Pam The truth is that there are...
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