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
I’ve collected a few fun Google activities during the last week that I thought I would share for this week’s Phun Phriday post. Remember, these are not necessarily educational – but that doesn’t mean you won’t find a way to integrate them into your classroom 🙂 I saw this Google Docs trick tweeted out earlier … Read more
UPDATE 11/6/14: This set has been sold out since this summer. You can find pieces of it for sale, and even the whole set for an exorbitant price. Lego states on its site that they are looking into producing more. I am really pumped about the new Lego set to be released this August, 2014! It … Read more
I’ve had many failures this year (which I will be outlining in some near future posts, I promise), but one message I definitely seemed to get across to my students was that I am done with ho-hum slide presentations that make everyone yawn. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the awesome presentation that some … Read more
Somehow I missed meeting Hunter Thompson at SXSWedu this week. Fortunately, I happened to pick up on a tweet that led to this article about the young man, who is the very smart 16-year-old behind Smallworks, a company that makes Lego brick cases for iPods, iPhones, and iPad minis. If 16 sounds too young to … Read more
It’s Friday. And we’re going to have fun! Since it’s all about Lego these days (all of my students are talking about the newly released Lego Movie), I thought I’d share some of the Lego links I’ve been collecting lately for today’s Phun Phriday post: Legography – Check out these great photos showing the perspective … Read more