Computer Lab Seating Chart

It’s even more important here than it is in your classroom. photo credit: Extra Ketchup When going to the computer lab, it is really helpful if you have planned a seating chart that helps the struggling student get help as quickly as possible. You are only one person and you don’t want to style yourself [...]

Read more »

How will you use Wallwisher?

Teachers Love Post-Its Today in the Illinois Writing Project Summer Leadership Institute to set an agenda for the technology PD. You can check out our Wall by clicking here. I believe that it’s really important that we move beyond thinking that technology PD is just about the tools.  In many places, teachers are shown a [...]

Read more »

Best Practices in Tech PD

I WANT MORE PD! Ask almost any teacher and they will tell you they want more technology professional development.  That request means something different to each teacher: exposure to new technology tools step-by-step guidance to new tools help creating lessons that utilize technology a day to be out of the classroom checking their FaceBook page [...]

Read more »

Baby Steps to a PLN (NOT)

Image via Wikipedia I keep reading about how invaluable a PLN (personal learning network) can be on all the blogs I read.  Its been hard for me to make the jump from reader/lurker to commenter within my RSS reader.  All of the bloggers mentioned Twitter as the best way to build a PLN. So I [...]

Read more »