Genius Hour is a student directed inquiry on a question of their choice. During the genius hour/20% time students would research a project of their choice and create a project with their information to then be presented to an audience. I see this being beneficial to creating lifelong learners and showing students that their interests …
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Skype and Google Hangouts for Professional Learning
I was able to connect with Kirk on Google Hangouts. We were able to chat about different uses for using these tools in education. Google hangouts was a very easy platform to utilize. All you needed was the website on your computer or app on your phone. If you were someone with a gmail account …
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Using Twitter for Professional Learning
Many people use Twitter to mindlessly share their personal ideas with the world. Twitter limits user to 140 characters per tweet, however this can be just enough to get an idea across. School, students, teacher, journalists, leaders all across the world use Twitter as platform to share information. The information shared by these users can …
Podcasts in Education
Personally I never listen to podcasts, I just don’t find the time to do so. After exploring I struggled to find any podcasts really relevant to what I do as an educator. I found one podcast, but it has not had any added episode since 2014. Most of the examples I found were related to …
Flickr in the Classroom
Flickr could be used in the classroom in many different ways. Flickr is a photo sharing site that allows users to store their photographs online as well as edit photographs. Users have a choice to keep their photographs private or share them with the public. A good place to start with Flickr is teaching students …
Learning Activity 5-1
How does the idea of everyone sharing knowledge in a collaborative environment affect the model of teaching and learning? The traditional school view of students at desk, pencil and test days are changing with today’s world and innovations. A collaborative environment is effecting the model of teaching and learning. A collaborative environment allows students the …
Social Bookmarking Lesson
Original Lesson E.Q. What do I want to learn? Obj. Students will complete research on their selected tribe Getting Started Students will get into their groups and find their tribes books Vocab Tribes, customs, food, festivals, nickname Activities 1.Students will work cooperatively with their groups to research their tribe2.Allow 10 minutes for book selection Materials …
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are not something I would typically think about using in an elementary library setting. However, after reading some of the uses for an RSS reader, I think that I could possibly use it for compiling resources for my students when they are conducting their research units. I require 3-5 graders to complete different …
Welcome to My Blog
My initial thought about using web technologies in the library was to go for it. The more that I can push the library into the 21st century, the more relevant and current the library will stay. There are several roadblocks that became more and more obvious the more I thought about it though. When dealing …
Learning in the Library 