Adams Elementary staff create classroom kits of digital cameras for student use
On Wednesday October 28th 2009, staff at Adams Elementary used early release time to familiarize themselves with PTA-funded classroom kits of digital cameras. Staff participated in a hands-on activity...
View ArticleWest Woodland Elementary is holding a Virtual Open House Friday June 3rd, 2011
Using the new teacher class pages in the WCMS provided by BTA III Levy, all certificated staff at West Woodland elementary created slideshows intended to provide parents with a window into the...
View ArticleUsing iPads to Create Characters
Our project centered on using mobile devices in the Readers/Writers Workshop to strengthen literacy. The focus of the project revolved around a realistic fiction unit. Students used the Strip Designer...
View ArticleShakespeare Videos at Garfield
For years I have incorporated the use of video when teaching Shakespeare. I find that students are more motivated to get involved with the unit when they can create and film original interpretations of...
View ArticleSeattle World School Film Projects
This year our first cohort of 9th grade students studied a unit on the history of language in World History class. To further their understanding and to communicate their learning with others, the...
View ArticleThurgood Marshall- music submission for technology grant
Since 1990, I have been using music and technology in the classroom. Computers get faster and software continues to develop, and the ability to share lessons and reflect on the web with other music...
View ArticleCreating a Collaborative Digital Community
This year, I have been working to integrate iPads in my Reading Workshop, specifically to help students improve oral fluency. I taught students to responsibly handle technology equipment and use the...
View ArticleWondering About the World
Today a parent came in to talk to my first graders about his work helping people in Ethiopia, Tanzania and India procure safe drinking water. He told us that as a scientific researcher he spends his...
View ArticleExtra! Extra! Read All About It.
Taking writing our Washington State History Newspaper to the next level and into the 21st Century using 21st Century technology. Presently my students use Microsoft Publisher to write a Washington...
View ArticlePublishing Work on an iPad vs. Without
My third grade students at Adams Elementary have published work at the culmination of each Writing Workshop unit. This post will show you the publishing process my students used with 5 classroom...
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