Kid President has joined with Gener.us this week to promote their #SimplyGiveThanks campaign. He is producing a short video on Facebook each day with a challenge to give thanks. In Tuesday’s video, the wonderful young man asked for people to give thanks to teachers. To participate in this, or to give thanks to anyone in … Read more
Happy Phun Phriday! In this neck of the woods, today is the Phantastic Phright Phest otherwise known as Halloween. To honor the day, I’m sharing two resources that have monsters who are anything but scary! First up is Kid President’s recent Pep Talk co-hosted by everyone’s favorite Muppet, Grover. My favorite line from this video? … Read more
I had just finished writing a rough draft of this post when I got the latest update from one of my favorite bloggers, Sonya Terborg. She said everything so much more eloquently in her post than I did. So, basically my post is like an appetizer and hers is definitely the entree. If you like my … Read more
Not everyone is obsessed with reading education blogs or following Twitter as I am – especially over the summer. I’ve noticed this blog’s stats have started growing since the beginning of August, which probably means educators are starting to return to work and might be looking for resources. For today’s post I thought I … Read more
What do a llama, Kevin Costner, corn dogs, and Rainn Wilson all have in common? Kid President, of course! Many of you are familiar with the Kid President videos. One of his most famous is his “Pep Talk” video, which is included on my Inspirational Videos for Students Pinterest Board. You can view more of … Read more
Ever since the Doodle 4 Google theme for 2014 was announced (“If I could invent one thing to make the world a better place…”), I have been finding resources everywhere. I’m pretty sure I could spend an entire year with a class on this theme. For example, last week on Twitter, @theresamcgee shared a fabulous … Read more