Every other year our middle school students work on biography writing. This year we had an opportunity to start our biography project with a visiting author, Mary Dodson Wade. She is known for writing many […]

In January, our school was contacted by author Mary Dodson Wade to see if we would be interested in having her speak to our students on March 8 & 9. Her husband is an engineer that presents workshops around […]

At this point, we reviewed the biography Wilma Rudolph by Mary Dodson Wade. This title was written for grades K-2 and kept to about 350 words. I reminded the students to look for the five W’s and to note the […]

After the great kick off to our biography unit that Mary Dodson Wade gave us, we looked at several of her biographies along with a handful of others. The students were asked to read and fill in a graphic […]

Using laptops in the classroom has been such a wonderful experience for me. I have loved teaching these last two years having them. Little things like being able to use Schoology to manage our assignments to being […]

Thinking about how education might change due to new technology seems like such a huge topic. In many ways, technology has greatly changed the way I teach in the last year. But I do think I have been very […]

I have really enjoyed reading the articles on the Flipped Classroom.  I was so fascinated that I found myself following all the links and three hours have passed! My understanding of the flipped classroom or reverse instruction is that information that would normally be shared as a lecture, is presented to students through the use [...]

                    Technology in my Classroom In my classroom, tech integration means finding ways for students to do things that will allow them to utilize their laptops as much as possible. I have tried to apply the idea of four tiers of tool usage from Ruben R. Puentedura’s A [...]

I feel both the classroom teacher and the Technology Coordinator should be working towards teaching the NETsstandards.  However, this is so much easier said than done, especially at my school. Weare such a small staff, and we all have so many different areas that we teach in, it is really hard to find the time to [...]