A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog – Part 1
A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored posting to a blog if all they’re ever asked to do is write on it. To draw more attention to blog posts, to make them more interesting, to […]
Mission Map Quest – Create Your Own Geography Games
Russel Tarr is on a roll this month. Earlier this month he released a great tool for creating fake text message exchanges between historical and literary characters. This week he released another tool that I think teachers will like. Russel’s latest tool is Mission Map Quest. Mission Map Quest is a map-based tool for creating […]
The Week in Review – It’s Mud Season!
Good morning from muddy Greenwood, Maine. The spring thaw has started and that means it is mud season. Along with the mud we have the return of lots of birds and awakening of black bears from their winter slumber. This week I spent two days at Discovery’s Beyond the Textbook forum. It was a good […]
The NanoSpace Molecularium – A Virtual Amusement Park About Molecules
The NanoSpace Molecularium is a nice web resource produced by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The purpose of the site is to provide elementary school and middle school students with an introduction to the properties of atoms and molecules. The NanoSpace Molecularium is a virtual amusement park that students can click through to find videos, games, and […]
Conservation Connection – A Game for Learning About Conservation
Nature Works Everywhere is an excellent site presented by The Nature Conservancy. One of the features Nature Works Everywhere designed for students is Conservation Connection. Conservation Connection is a simple game in which students try to identify connections between common consumer items like ice cream and the conservation issues connected to it. Applications for Education […]
A Good Collection of 13 Digital Citizenship Resources
Jen Deyenberg at Northern Gateway Public Schools has created a nice collection of digital citizenship resources for teachers and parents. The collection is organized into sections for elementary school, middle school, and high school. There is a separate tab for parent resources. One of the things that I like about the collection is that understanding […]
Google Maps Engine Lite – Create Advanced Custom Google Maps
For years Google Maps had the option for creating custom placemarks and basic shapes in the “my maps” option in your account. But if you want to further customize your maps you really had to do that work in Google Earth. Yesterday, Google introduced Maps Engine Lite which bridges the gap between creating basic custom […]
A Short Guide to Mobile Blogging Apps for Students and Teachers
One of the blogging activities that I often suggest in my workshops is having students record and share on-the-spot observations during field trips. To do this your students should have a mobile blogging application on their iOS and Android devices. If your students don’t have iOS or Android devices, but they have some other mobile […]
What Is Beyond Textbooks?
For the next two days I’ll be at Discovery Education’s Beyond the Textbook forum. The purpose of the forum is to bring together a couple of dozen educators to discuss the next generation of textbooks or whatever is beyond textbooks. The forum is set to begin in just a few minutes from now. These are […]
Quizdini – Create Online Quizzes That Give Students Instant Feedback
Quizdini is a free tool for creating online quizzes. The best feature of Quizdini is that you can create explanations of the correct answer for your students to view immediately after trying each question in your quiz. Your explanation can include text and or links to online resources like videos and images. Quizdini quizzes can […]
