Nick Davis (@Slapshot99) has started a weekly Twitter challenge for teachers to post pics along a certain theme. You can see pics that have been submitted by searching for #teacherswithcameras on Twitter. Last week (the first in the series) had the theme of “Play.” For this week, Nick is looking for Black and White pictures. … Read more
#gmttc is the official hashtag for the Global Math Task Twitter Challenge. Classrooms around the world are invited to participate by solving the problems that are tweeted and/or tweeting out their own. You can formally sign on to be a #gmttc tweeter on this spreadsheet, but this is not a requirement. It is easy enough … Read more
So, traditionally, Fridays are what I call Phun Phridays – when I blog about something that pretty much has no educational value. But I’m tired of called them Phun Phridays. So I used an online Scrabble dictionary to help me find something more realistically alliterative. The new name is – drum roll, please!!!! – Frivolous … Read more
Testing week. Ugh. Stressful. Depressing. NOT fun. So, why not join us in a light-hearted Twitter chat using memes to discuss education? Everyone is invited! It’s tonight (Tuesday, April 21st, 2015) at 8 PM CST. #NEISDPLN Here are the questions: 1. Haters gonna hate – what’s something you hear educators complain about too often? 2. … Read more
A couple of weeks ago some of the librarians in our district sent out an idea for a district Twitter chat for our students. They included a great form that we could use for the students to fill out. I had just participated in a professional chat a few days before, hosted by Todd Nesloney, about creating … Read more
Just to be clear from the outset, this post is not about the game that prepares you for a career in Cirque de Soleil – or, in my case, a long stay in the hospital. Twister, basically a fake Tweet generator, is one of the many fun tools available from ClassTools.net. (Check out this post from Richard Byrne about Connect … Read more