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 [...]

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 [...]

Integrating Assessment Tools

We have several online assessment programs that we use at my school. We use Study Island, which is more of a math games application, Compass Learning and Achievement Series. If you have a web-based, virtual classroom, you should pin these programs to your menu, so your students come here first (remember, you always want students [...]

Blogging from Microsoft Word

I just got a fancy new laptop computer, complete with Microsoft Word 2007. This version comes with a neat Blog Post feature, in which you can publish your blog post, directly from Word to your blog. I’m not certain how convenient this is, so I decided to give it a try. The application allows you [...]