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This idea comes from Kim Cofino, who is the Elementary 21st Century Literacy Specialist at the International School in Bangkok, Thailand. On Monday, Kim posted an idea on her blog, always learning, on Monday, October 1st entitled Collaborative Ideas Number 3: Creating a Flat Classroom Project. In this post, Kim shares: Our goal is to [...]

Yesterday, Monday, October 1st, we held our first Brown Bag Monday Technology Lunchtime training. We were treated to a wonderful presentation on how to use Microsoft Journal given by our Chemistry teacher, Roderick Mobley, who has been using a Tablet PC for the past four years. Due to other commitments, some of our teachers who [...]

Invariably, if you begin to network with individuals who are not on campus, you will want to schedule time to have a voice or text chat do do some planning. I know that I am pretty good about remembering what cities are in what time zone and when daylight savings time starts and ends for [...]

I am a visual learner. When taking notes growing up, I was forever creating boxes to hold the ideas and draw arrows to connect the ideas that were forged in classroom lectures and conversations. It is for this reason that I loved Inspiration when I first saw it back in 1990. A great program to [...]

Today’s pick of a digital treasure comes from Utah State University.  My own personal experiences and memories using cuisenaire rods in while in elementary school and watching our math teachers skillfully use a wide variety of manipulatives in the classroom over the past 14 years convince me that approach of teaching abstract concepts using concrete [...]

Did you ever receive an attachment or a file from someone that you could not open because you did not have the correct application loaded on your computer? Ever need to change the file format of a video or audio file so that you could import it into another application? If you have answered yes [...]

I was made aware of this tool from Tim Wilson in his blog, the Savvy Technologist – Assignment Calculator 2.0 Both students and adults have difficulty breaking down a long-range project into smaller, more discrete steps. However, using this new online tool developed by both the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) and MINITEX, a program [...]