Mill Valley (CA) Library posted a set of photos to flickr of 3rd grade history reports from the Edna Maguire Elementary School. Nice project idea. And great way to share the reports.
Category: Schools
Wordia – a video dictionary
This is way more fun than the vocabulary flash cards we used back in 3rd grade. Wordia is a collection of short videos submitted that explain the meaning of a word. Anyone can submit a […]
School Library 2.0 Weekend Retreat
Coming up next weekend (September 27 and 28th), I’ll be facilitating a workshop for School Library Media Specialists. I can promise you it will be a weekend full of learning, laughter and a lot of […]
2.0 in the Classroom & PBS Election Curriculum
Earlier tonight I received a note about a live webcast discussing the PBS multimedia Election 2008 curriculum and the Web 2.0 tools and resources that are part of the curriculum. Wow, I’m so glad I […]
Wikispaces: 100,000 Free K-12 Wikis – and 250,000 More!
2 1/2 years ago, Wikispaces committed to giving away 100,000 ad-free, private, unlimited use wikis to K-12 educators. They reached that number this weekend. And are ready to start on the next 250,000! Wow. 250,000 […]
A Dozen Back to School Uses for Big Huge Labs Trading Card Generator
In a class last week, someone suggested using the the free trading cards generator at bighugelabs.com as a ‘get to know you’ sort of exercise at the beginning of the school year. That got me […]
Games in Education Symposium – Aug 19-20
This looks really interesting. Wish I could attend. The second annual Games in Education Symposium, free to middle and high school teachers, is scheduled for Tuesday & Wednesday, August 19-20th and will take place at […]
The PBwiki Back to School Challenge
Seems that PBwiki is giving away premium accounts to librarians and educators. Sign up now at the PBwiki Back to School Challenge Announcing a new way to make PBwiki a part of your classroom this […]
High School Students Create Calculus Wiki to Help Future Students
From Jan Tunison at Scotia Glenville High School (NY): Scotia-Glenville BC Calculus Wiki Our BC calc students created a wiki for future classes to use. The students did a great job, especially with adding math […]
Get paid for your curriculum
Curriki is looking for content. If you have an instructional unit or course you’d like to share with the world, check out Curriki’s Summer of Content. Do you have an instructional unit or course you’re […]
GoGooligans revisited
After I posted some concerns about GoGooligans last week, the developer of GoGooligans responded to these and those expressed by others over at flickr. As a result, he’s deleted the “hey kid – click this […]
Many Voices for Darfur project
March 6 and 7 – your students’ voices can matter: For 48 hours, starting at midnight Eastern standard time on March 6, 2008, many student voices will be collected in the name of those suffering […]