Ever hear of StoryCorps ? It's a fantastic repository of recordings of ordinary people interviewing each other about ordinary to extraor...

There are oodles of web-based Audience Response apps available that students can use their mobile devices to respond to ("oodles" ...

Continuing with the idea of using cell phones in class for good and not evil, how about a backchannel? Today's Meet is an easy to use (...

Cell phones. They are permanently attached to our high school students' hands (although a lot of adults aren't much better!). Dealin...

And this week's list... listen remember their stories send a note - snail mail! share pictures accept them as they are start each...

NOOOOO! I have been a loyal Shelfari-an for years, faithfully recording my books read as well as back-tracking through my bookshelves all ...

Inspired by another blogger ( Little Mrs. Married ) who is regularly posting lists to write more consistently, I'll share the podcasts I...

Hardly a day goes by when an education-related news article doesn't get me steamed, but this one I couldn't pass up: In a nut s...

A few people emailed me about the map I put up on yesterday's post , so I thought I'd share a little bit about it. Google My Maps a...

Social media is definitely like The Force - it contains enormous potential for good, but also has the Dark Side . As teachers we all know ho...

Have you heard of Docs Teach ? It's an online tool hosted by the National Archives that holds thousands of primary documents (and pictur...

So I'm taking a break from this (rather slow) description of my transition from teaching to the "other side" to ask this quest...

Hey, Uncle Ben's actually responded to my objection from Friday !

Stole this idea from someone on Facebook/Pinterest/Twitter/somewhere. It was hanging the last four weeks of school. It once got up to three...

Today's entry is just sharing an incredible resource. This is amazing - Bloom's Taxonomy of apps! If you check out this link ...

Here's an incredibly obvious idea that took me nearly eight years to come up with: Whenever I want my classes to meet me in the c...

A year and a half ago or so I posted about a job wheel I created to assign miscellaneous tasks that need to be completed after each cooking...

Can't remember if I've mentioned this before, too lazy to search. I. Love. ifaketext.com The possibilities are endless!...

Kids are usually good about staying quiet they are finished with a quiz/test until the rest of the students finish as well... actually, unti...

So we're all familiar with this internal dialogue/scenario: "Hmmm, you know what would be great in this lesson? ____________! Let...