This post is on my experience with reviving the importance of touch-typing and motivating students to learn it. It’s a round-up of my attempt to get 8-10 year old to practice typing on their own and setting up a typing competition as incentive.… [Continue Reading]
Thoughts on Touch-Typing
Desktops to laptops to tablets and smartphones, we’re exposed to all sorts of different input devices. The debate over teaching typing in schools is ongoing. My first computer course in the 8th was a typing class. A whole period. An entire 50 minutes dedicated to typing in computer lab.… [Continue Reading]
World Education Games 2013
In February of this year I registered my elementary school in the annual World Education Games which brings together millions of students in some healthy competition to race against others in the same age category to answer math, literacy, and science questions.… [Continue Reading]
Guest Post over at AlwaysPrepped.com
AlwaysPrepped.com has published a post I wrote as a guest blogger, “Never Underestimate the ‘Cool’ Factor“. Thanks to the folks over at AlwaysPrepped for featuring me.
AlwaysPrepped is a free web app for “teachers to connect existing web based accounts such as Khan Academy, Engrade and others in to one centralized location.”
Check them out!… [Continue Reading]
5 Ways to Develop your PLN
I want to share with you how I use my Personal Learning Network (PLN) to help me grow as an educator. Having a PLN is about joining groups and communities of people with whom you can connect, collaborate and contribute. Through them, I’ve found resources and lesson plans, learned new technology to integrate in the classroom, and I’ve asked for help and got back great solutions.… [Continue Reading]
New Generation
The floppy disk has been around for over 25 years, and according to Wikipedia – most manufacturers stopped supporting them by 2010. The floppy is pretty iconic, and you would think that anybody who’s been using the computer for a decent amount of time would know what it is.… [Continue Reading]
Screencast-O-Matic
With the advent of powerhouses like YouTube and Vimeo, and the popularity of the Khan Academy, Media College, and thousands of other video resources, it’s become ridiculously easy to find, create, and share videos.
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inClass App
Labeled as the last school app you’ll ever need, inClass is definitely something you should try out. This free app is available for the iPad, iPod, and iPhone. I tested this app and found it very intuitive and easy to use.… [Continue Reading]
Learn Something Everyday
A group of ferrets is called a business. Kinder Surprise eggs are illegal in the United States. In Urugay, there’s a prison called ‘Freedom’. Rabbits can see behind them without turning around.
Check out Learn Something Every Day for some interesting lesser known facts.… [Continue Reading]
Is Wikipedia Reliable?
Is Wikipedia a reliable source of information? Being a wiki, Wikipedia’s content can be modified by anybody. How can we trust it? But it is considered the largest encyclopedia on the Internet. How can we ignore it?
You should have already read these two articles:
- Evaluating Internet Research Sources: http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
- Critically Analyzing Information Sources: http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/ref/research/skill26.htm
Write a blog post discussing your views on whether or not Wikipedia is a reliable source of information.… [Continue Reading]