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Making Citations A Breeze (Three Great Resources)
Helping students with their bibliography for their papers is always frustrating and confusing for my Junior High Students. So this year I had them use three great resources that helped them to create...
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QuizMEOnline Social Networking & Studying
This past week I was looking for a website to easily create online quizzes and tests that I could use to quickly assess my students to make lesson adjustments. As I was looking at the different...
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Visual Digital Library
So often my Jr. High students seem to lose interest in their research and begin to complain that they can not find any good information. Wikipedia and other informational websites by their nature are...
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Visual Search Engine: instaGrok
Over the course of the the last few days my students have begun to use instaGrok as a search engine in class. This site conducts searches in a very visual way that invokes students to explore and...
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Best Place to Find Technology For The Classroom
picture of an e-learning classroom (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As my regular readers know I am always looking for new technologies to try out in my classroom. But the task of finding new technologies can...
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Spark Student Interest with Time Search
Spark Student Interest with Time Search Time Search is a great resource that I came across near the end of this past school year. It is a great research tool to assist students looking for information...
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Videos that Make for Great Teacher Professional Development
education (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) While I normality like to post my ideas and thoughts on education and technology. Occasionally, however I come across a post that is just so outstanding and on...
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myHistro: A Great Teaching Timeline Tool
Tallinn, view (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One of the great things that I have enjoyed about blogging is communicating with people all over the world. Recently, I had a message from a reader Valeria from...
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Video Project:Free Sound Effects and Music Tracks
As the year progresses and my students begin to look for new ideas for projects they begin to see the value of not only sound effects but sound tracks. Music is a powerful element in a movie. Which...
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The Battle of the Timelines “Timetoast vs. Xtimeline”
This past week I had my students use one of the following timeline creators,(Timetoast, Xtimeline) to discuss the major events leading up to the Declaration of Independence. Since both of these tools...
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