Picturing a Great New Year!

Happy New Year!  I guess we are all thinking about how we are going to make this year a better one.  I am hoping to blog more and to take mo...

iPad Lesson: WordFoto

Are you looking for a fun, creative way to integrate technology to teach language or vocabulary for your unit of study?  Try the Wordfoto (...

Challenge Based Learning- Take Action and Make a Difference!

I recently learned about the  Challenge Based Learning site through a STEMx course I am taking.  What is Challenge Based Learning?  It is ...

Spooktactular Story Writing Resources

It is the time of year again when the ghosts and goblins come out and the spooky stories get written in classrooms.  So here is a presentati...

Create Your Own iPad Games with Sketch Nation Studio

I don't consider myself a developer at all and I created a game in under 5 minutes with  Sketch Nation Studio !  This iPad or iPhone app...

Poster My Wall!

I am LOVING PosterMyWall !  I have to thank my colleague Jennifer Morrison for sharing this great resource on our Discovery Education Edmodo...

Silhouette Memoir Writing with Tagxedo

Our fourth grade students were writing about a special event that had happened in their lifetime and the fourth grade team asked me for an i...

LinkWithin: Adding "You May Also Like" to Your Posts

I have been noticing recently that many of the blogs I follow have had suggested posts (you may also like...) at the end of each post.  Many...

ThingLink- Interactive Images

ThingLink is a site that allows you to make your images interactive by adding little interactive "hotspots" to it.  These "h...

MashUp: ToonDoo and Discovery Education

Are you looking for a fun way to integrate technology with a research project?   Try using ToonDoo.com with  DiscoveryEducation.com  resour...

Have You Discovered Pinterest Yet?

What is Pinterest ?  It is a collaboration of user-created virtual pinboards.  Users create pinboards based on topics of interest.  You brow...

Voicethread in the Classroom

Voicethread is a site that will allow you to create a multimedia conversation around a picture or series of pictures, an example is above...

Show Off Your Best Glogs

Glogster EDU is one of my favorite tools for the classroom.  Glogster EDU is an online application that creates online, multimedia po...

Clay Yourself

ClayYourself by Hotels.com could be a really fun application in the classroom.  Use it to make a clay-like avatar.  I learned about this fu...

Use Voicethread to Learn About Your New Students

At the beginning of the year teachers are always looking for fun ways to learn about their new students and for students to get to know each...

Get Creative with Glogster

Are you interested in learning more about Glogster EDU ? Check out my glog about Glogster that is below. Explore the glog to learn why you ...

How To Use Flip Cameras in the Classroom

Flip Cameras are easy and fun to use in the classroom to document student learning and to share learning experiences. Videos can be viewed i...

My Top 10 Favorite Web 2.0 and Tech Tools for the Elementary Classroom

As we near the end of our school year and you start thinking ahead to next year, I wanted to remind teachers of some of the great Web 2.0 to...