Yep. You read that correctly. How have I not heard of this before?!!! Problem-based, standards-based, project-based…. All familiar to me. Zombie-based? Not so much. The only reason I know about it now is because of another of Edutopia’s fabulous 5-Minute Film Festivals. This one, posted on 7/17/15, is about inspirational teachers. I scanned the list … Read more
A couple of years ago, I posted about an interesting infographic included in a presentation by Kathy Schrock. The image showed each world flag as a pie chart of color. Nicholas Rougeux has a different take on the colors of the world’s flags. He chose to categorize them by color scheme. Check out his poster … Read more
Kahoot is a fun student response site that can be used with any device. I don’t employ it very often because the nature of my gifted classes doesn’t really allow for many multiple choice questions. Yesterday, though, I decided to see how my first graders would respond to a Kahoot geography quiz. They have been … Read more
Full disclosure – our class received a Dash and Dot package from Wonder Workshop for review. Last month I posted an article about the new additions to our classroom, Dash and Dot (and Fitzgerald). Since then, the school Maker Club, our Robotics team, and my 1st graders have been learning more about the features … Read more
International Dot Day is just a week away (9/15/14!) and I wanted to share with you this great project I saw posted by Louise Morgan last year. It is a collection of Dot Day projects from all over the world presented in Scratch. (If you are unfamiliar with Scratch, the free programming site from M.I.T., … Read more
You know how it goes. You’re in the 3rd hour of “training your brain” by playing 2048 on your iPhone in the hopes of beating your 11-year-old daughter’s high score, and you suddenly think, “This is a waste of time. Instead, I should make a wall-size map of The World painstakingly pieced together by my very own hands … Read more