A conversation started earlier today where one of my co-workers asked about resources to help students find and figure out how to determine Latitude and Longitude. It made me think back about some conversations that I had with some Kindergarten teachers regarding Google Earth and it dawned on me. You can set Google Maps to show your Latitude and Longitude with just a few simple clicks on the screen.I had forgotten all about the ability for Google Maps to display this information and it is very simple to do. Once you have opened...
Friday, 27 January 2012
Most schools and districts spend lot of time and effort trying to get their teachers up to speed on technology and its use/place in the classroom. And honestly that is where a majority of effort should be spent; working with those on the frontlines of instruction. However, rarely, if ever, is much time spent with administrators, working with them on ways they use technology to enhance what they are doing. What can administrators do?I have put together what I have called The Administrators Technology Toolkit. There are some simple, easy to...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
... at least in my opinion! I have written a couple of blog posts about Symbaloo in the past couple of months. One of the last things I wrote about was that you could now embed a Symbaloo into a wiki or web page. I thought that was a great feature, but I wanted to be able to add a Symbaloo into a blog post. At the time of the post on embedding Symbaloo into a wiki or web page, there was no way of changing the height or width of the Symbaloo. Now there is! Yea! I am so excited about that. You will still have to use the scroll bar to see all of the...
Do you know who Lily is?You can read the blog post on my WonderFamilyEdwards blog to find out more about how I found out who Lily is (I guess that would be part 1).By the way, Lily is a bear that my daughter's Kindergarten class at Caleb's Creek Elementary has been watching on a web cam ...I think the idea of viewing various animals web cams is interesting, so I asked her teacher if she would mind sharing some of the things they are doing with this...
Friday, 20 January 2012
So this is a blog.Yep. It really is, or at least I want it to be.This is a space for me to reflect, share, learn and grow with anyone who stops by. It has been a wonderful experience for me and I really do enjoy working on this. Besides the professional growth, blogs can be a wonderful addition to any classroom too. So you are thinking? I wanna start blogging? But I don't know anything about it? Fear not kind reader! I have several...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Last week my daughter brought home a picture she drew after her class read a Curious George book in the media center. While she was telling me all about her picture, I realized she was giving me a pretty good summary of the story. (She also told me the list of words on the side of the picture are words you are supposed to find in the picture on the other side of the picture .. but that is a topic for another post). I later found out from the teacher...
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
The other day I was having a training session with middle school teachers who are moving into their new building in a couple of days on the equipment they now have access to in their classrooms. We were talking about all of the new interactive tools they have in their classrooms that they can use with their students when I had a teacher speak up and say what is that? I was not sure what they were referring to so I asked them to show me...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
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