If you’ve ever felt that you couldn’t keep up with everything Google, Google now has a tool for that. Similar to the Periodic table, Google now has it’s own table of products. You can scroll over each “element” and then click on it for a complete description and link to that product. If you’ve heard [...]
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Reading Intervention on the SMART Board
October 7th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Resources, SMART Board, Uncategorized
I came across these wonderful notebook files created by Amber Coggin. She created these to help students with specific reading skills. These might be skills addressed as a part of a reading intervention program, or used as a part of a reading center or workshop. No matter how you may choose to use them, they [...]
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Teaching Addition Combinations
April 25th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized
Try these two games on the SMART Board to have your students practice their skills with addition combinations. The first one is Connectsums. The object is to find as many combinations of numbers, dice, or coins that equal a target sum, all while trying to beat the timer or using a countdown. One additional constraint [...]
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Teaching Handwriting
March 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Who has time in the school day to teach handwriting? It seems that there is an ever increasing demand to pack more curriculum content in the school day. And it also seems that handwriting continually moves down to the bottom of the list. Here’s one tool that may help save some time when teaching handwriting. [...]
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Wallwisher
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A new way to communicate…. Wall wisher is a free, online notice board maker. It’s ideal for making announcements, posting notes and responding to questions. Wall wisher is an online bulletin board that can be collaborative and interactive. All you have to do is follow this link http://www.wallwisher.com/ to post a question, make an announcement, [...]
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Martin Luther King’s Message-Wordle style
January 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Resources, Uncategorized
I heard about Wordle a while ago and tried it out and thought it was pretty cool. I passed it on to our writing resource teacher who also thought it had great possibilities for use in writing lessons. So, I have been waiting to find the right time and the right way to introduce Wordle [...]
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SMART Board Templates
January 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · SMART Board, Uncategorized
For those of you who are just starting to create new lessons on your SMART Board…here’s a gift. I always advise people to search for lessons that may already be created. They may meet all your needs or may need to be tweaked slightly and then will be just what you’re looking for. Here are [...]
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Welcome
December 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Welcome to my blog. This is a place you will find useful information for integrating technology in any elementary classroom. I will update you on current websites, web 2.0 tools, best practices and lesson plans. Please be sure to check back often.
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