I’ve been using a website as part of my media center program for the past 6 years or so, and have always said that I couldn’t imagine teaching without it. Last year, I rebuilt my website using Weebly and made it more kid-friendly and easy-to-navigate. This year, I’ve begun amping up my website and using … Continue reading
Over the past month, I have been working with students at all grade levels on learning about the process we use when we do research. This year, Wake County has introduced a county-wide research process called eWISE. It is an acronym that describes the research process (Wonder, Investigate, Synthesize, and Express–with the small “e” at … Continue reading
It’s Book Fair week at our school! It’s one of my favorite weeks of the year because it’s so much fun to see kids get so excited about reading. After several years of book fair observing and promoting, there are some things that I think are really special about this year’s fair that have me … Continue reading
Looking for something new to add to your list of read-alouds this year? The following books are particularly fun for the 3rd-5th grade age group, and the shared experience of reading them together can be a great bonding activity for your class at the beginning of the year. These books are sure to give you … Continue reading
I am still a Twitter novice, but am amazed by the wealth of information that is shared daily using this tool. With ISTE earlier this week, and now ALA in full swing, there is so much great stuff being shared that it’s hard to keep up. I wasn’t able to attend either conference, but thanks … Continue reading
If you are a teacher and you aren’t using Voicethread, you’re missing out on a powerful tool that can engage and empower your students. If you are a parent of a child at our school and you haven’t asked them to show you a Voicethread that they worked on this year, you really should. They’re … Continue reading
Surprisingly, one of the NCTIES sessions that I was most excited by was the session about Home Base, the new management system from NCDPI that will combine a Student Information System with an Instructional Improvement System. All of these applications will exist in one place and be accessed with one login. It’s the definition of … Continue reading
One web-based resource that was mentioned on several “best of” lists during the NCTIES 2013 conference was Thinglink. Thinglink is a site that allows you to upload an image and then “pin” links to it. Then, when you click on different parts of the image, your links (text, multimedia, websites, etc.) appear. Several different presenters … Continue reading
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“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” --A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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“You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” --A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
A Corner of the Forest 