I first time I heard about Twitter was in some trashy magazine I picked up on an airplane (yes I read them; no I won’t pay for one) and read about a pop star ‘twittering‘ … something mundane, maybe what kind of sandwich this person’s SO was picking up for them. I dismissed this new…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
QR Codes at School?
I don’t know why, but the QR Codes in the Classroom session really stuck with me. It’s been marinating in the noggin ever since EARCOS and over these last few weeks, I’ve accumulated a list of ideas for its use on my iPhone notes app. as they came up. Some ideas were shared during the session…
Lessons Learned in a Fish Bowl
Attending Jeff’s ‘Top 10 Web Tools’ session had me wishing I was teaching middle or HS students. Why? Well, many of the tools or sites discussed, such as Facebook, are impossible to use with our younger learners. Take the site www.polleverywhere.com; teachers can have students text in votes or answers, as a quick method of…
“CC me” is Not What You Think
How early does your school teach good source citing practice? I’m sure some of you might reply that your kindergarten-ers have already published essays with full citations, and that would be great, but how were they taught and do they understand would be my next questions. According to Noodletools, we have to create a citing culture,…