Posted in General Curriculum, General Technology on Jan 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Today I held my first meeting with everyone who works in our district’s secondary schools in the Technology Labs. It went very well. We had some professional development — a little overview of Atomic Learning and went over www.picnik.com, a great site for teachers/students to use to edit photos and resize photos. We shared tips [...]
Posted in General Curriculum on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »
The Internet just continues to be one of the greatest tools available. Check out the Encyclopedia of Life — a global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth.
From the Press Release:
“Over the next 10 years, the Encyclopedia of Life will create Internet pages for [...]
Posted in General Curriculum on Jan 21st, 2007 4 Comments »
Enrichment Clusters have started at my school — Marstons Mills East Horace Mann Charter Public School. They run for six weeks — one hour every Friday. After the six weeks, there is a celebration for the whole school where the students demonstrate the skills they learned and share their created projects — it could be [...]
Posted in General Curriculum on Dec 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Sometimes you find gold in a website. Well today that happened. Great site on news — Newseum. Newseum is an interactive museum of news. Some of the features are thumbnails of the front page of almost 500 newspapers in 49 countries — just click on the thumbnail to bring up the newspaper; Pulitzer prize winning [...]
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