Producing Content with iPads in Readers/Writers
How could our study of ancient civilizations at 6th grade be integrated into our readers and writers workshop? Here’s the overview of the unit I wrote to answer that question: Students will learn and...
View ArticleThe Cleveland “High Five” Project
The project began with the age-old question, “When we will ever use this information?” The students asked. In response, Steve Pratt and Jeff Taylor–a 9th grade physical science teacher and world...
View ArticleTechnology for the workshop!
The successful technology project that I am proposing to expand is the use of technology programs and tools to enhance readers’ workshop. My current technology project has helped make the work load of...
View ArticleShakespeare Videos at Garfield
For years I have incorporated the use of video when teaching Shakespeare. I find that students are more motivated to get involved with the unit when they can create and film original interpretations of...
View ArticleSeattle World School Film Projects
This year our first cohort of 9th grade students studied a unit on the history of language in World History class. To further their understanding and to communicate their learning with others, the...
View ArticleThurgood Marshall- music submission for technology grant
Since 1990, I have been using music and technology in the classroom. Computers get faster and software continues to develop, and the ability to share lessons and reflect on the web with other music...
View ArticleCreating a Collaborative Digital Community
This year, I have been working to integrate iPads in my Reading Workshop, specifically to help students improve oral fluency. I taught students to responsibly handle technology equipment and use the...
View ArticleWondering About the World
Today a parent came in to talk to my first graders about his work helping people in Ethiopia, Tanzania and India procure safe drinking water. He told us that as a scientific researcher he spends his...
View ArticleExtra! Extra! Read All About It.
Taking writing our Washington State History Newspaper to the next level and into the 21st Century using 21st Century technology. Presently my students use Microsoft Publisher to write a Washington...
View ArticlePublishing Work on an iPad vs. Without
My third grade students at Adams Elementary have published work at the culmination of each Writing Workshop unit. This post will show you the publishing process my students used with 5 classroom...
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