Just like most brains, mine constantly searches for patterns and connections. Lately, I’ve observed an underlying theme in many of the resources that I’ve been culling for teaching next year – the importance of kindness. After seeing a book recommendation on several blogs, including one of my favorites, “Not Just Child’s Play,” I finally read … Read more
For today’s Fun Friday post, I am sharing a video I originally found on The Kid Should See This. I must admit that I’ve always found it fascinating to watch domino chain reactions, but never really thought about the physics involved. While I was grabbing the embed code for this video, I noticed quite a … Read more
Adam Bellow, the man behind Educlipper, is now my top Education Rock Star. The man is amazing, engaging, and generous. I was fortunate to witness two of his sessions at ISTE this week, and I was inspired to fill two pages of Pages on my my iPad with new ideas for the upcoming school year. … Read more
I intended to spend this week posting about what I have learned at ISTE, but I came across this site last night, and could not wait to share it. It combines quite a few of the educational topics that are near and dear to my heart: creativity, self-designed learning, gamifying the classroom, and even programming … Read more
I’ve had a Twitter account for awhile, but have only been following other people. I finally took the plunge and started tweeting. You can follow me @terrieichholz. (engagetheirminds was one character too long, and I couldn’t really figure out which letter I wanted to take out!) Or, you can just take a look at the … Read more
I have the good fortune of attending the International Society for Technology in Education annual conference in San Antonio this week. Last night, Dr. Jane McGonigal gave the opening keynote to around 6000 of us, and we might have broken a world record for thumb wrestling. If you have not heard of Dr. McGonigal, you … Read more