Category: Education Technology

  • Google Art and Culture page is a Treasure Trove for teachers

    If you haven’t added the Google Arts & Culture extension to your Chrome then you are missing out. It changes the main graphic in your opening tab each day to a piece of artwork from around the world. Also if you don’t like it, simply click and get a different piece. It is a great way to…

  • ISTE 2018 Presentation

    My presentation focuses on using Google Drawing to develop Found and Black-out Poetry from keystone reading sources. This is a great reflection process for ELA and Social Studies classrooms.

  • Infographics can Save the World

    Some of the most complex and in-depth information can be conveyed in a way that easy to understand, comprehend, and retain. Students should take part in drawing and develop notes for a deeper learning by creating infographics and sketchnotes. Sketchnoting has some real research behind its methods and is anchored in the idea of creative action…

  • TDIH: Nixon Resigns

    Image via Wikipedia   Resignation letters by far are the most important pieces never read. I mean, this has to be the most useful and useless piece of writing ever conceived. If I were going to resign from a job, my first course of action would be to personally tell my boss (adviser, leader, or…

  • Cory Doctorow’s Newest OpEd on Privacy

    You Are Not a Digital Native: Privacy in the Age of the Internet by Cory Doctorow | Tor.com This is a great essay about what privacy means to the youth of today and how you can be more private but less safe on the internet.

  • ENG10 Blog List for the Year

    List of blog topics (At least 250 Words, Two Web Elements) Personal Writing Choice: “Do you fear death?” Or “Common Flood Mythology?” Was Achilles really a hero? Choice: Dante’s Inferno p 665 #14 or 15 Bibliography for Persona Projects Reflections on Persona Project work Personal Writing or response to Lord of the Rings Viewing. Personal…