Class site spices up Smart Board lessons

I recently presented a workshop on web-based insruction at a private school in Ohio.  Some of the teachers use Smart Boards, and they wanted to know how the class web site might augment their use of the Smart Board. I leaped at this question like a hungry lion pouncing on its prey.  The web-based classroom [...]

K-12 Technology Carnival

Welcome to the April 7, 2008, first edition of the k-12 technology carnival. The past year has been a remarkable evolution of web-based instruction and technology use in my classroom. It has led to the creation of the Notes from the Paperless Classroom blog and a new workshop called, The Paperless Classroom. Additionally, it has [...]

Will iPhone Shortage Lower Price?

I want an iPhone. Okay, I know this doesn’t immediately smack of an education blog topic, but there actually is a connection, if you’ll just bear with me. Since it first hit the market, I have thought the iPhone is the coolest technology going. In fact, I can’t wait for it to hit laptops or [...]

Teach Spelling with Funny Videos

Want to get your students excited about spelling? If you can show them this video, you should. This young man, working very hard to overcome a tickled funny bone, so he can correctly spell a quirky word in a spelling bee will get your students dying to try to spell tricky, funny words. Check out [...]

Could Ramona Encourage Creation of the First Cyber Teacher?

So I ran into Ramona, the virtual person who likes to talk, over at KurzweilAi, and this robotic Chatty Kathy got me to thinking. What if we could incorporate something like Ramona into the classroom? Hmm, a virtual me. I do love the idea of the virtual classroom, but I’m not sure I’m ready to [...]

Blog Makes Fun Addition to Virtual Classroom

As a blogger, I’m always looking for ways to blog more often (I just love that the word, “blog,” can be used as so many different parts of speech). Now, I’ve found a way to use the school blog efficiently in my virtual, paperless classroom, which gives me a chance to keep my students informed, [...]

Student Cell Phones Film Teachers

I’m certainly in favor of all types of gadgets in the classroom, but students filmg teachers with cell phones is not what I’d call educational technology. Dangerously Irrelevant posts seven YouTube videos of students videotaping their teachers, behaving rather badly. Of course, the kids’ conduct isn’t much better. These videos sparked some interesting debate over [...]