Blackout Poetry - Update Earlier I wrote about how to do Blackout Poetry using Google Docs . I was dying to try it! A friend, who teaches 4th and 5th grade ELA to gi...
Jazz Appreciation Month - StoryLine Online StoryLine Online just released a new book just in time Jazz Appreciation Month (April). It is called Rent Party Jazz and is read by Viola D...
Blackout Poetry with Google Docs and Drawings I love the idea of Blackout Poetry. The basic premise is using existing text and finding words within the text to create a poem...then black...
Black History Month - Video/Story On my news feed at the beginning of the month StoryLine Online posted that a new book was added to their growing library of videos where ce...
7 Sneaky Ways to Get Students Reading Using Technology - Article Super excited to find out an educational article I wrote was published today in eschoolnews.com . The article was inspired by a training cla...
Google Forms - Choose Your Own Adventure - My First Attempt I just created my first Choose Your Own Adventure style story using Google Forms. As a tech coach that deals primarily with elementary sch...
Choose Your Own Adventure Stories - Using Google Forms My newest obsession is having students use Google forms to create "choose your own adventure" stories. The idea was brought up b...
Blackout Poetry for National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month. I use to love teaching about poetry but like most teachers I typically covered the same types of poems all t...
Keynote - Magic Move Lesson I was working with fourth graders teaching them how to use their Keynote app prior to a big project they are going to be working on. I was l...
Persuasive/Argumentative Writing - 5th Grade The other day I taught a persuasive/argumentative writing lesson...using technology...to three fifth grade classes. I was modeling how to in...
ISTE Idea #2 - Random Poster Session Ideas Before I get to the #1 ISTE Idea I was looking at my notes and ran across a few random ideas I got from the Poster Sessions (which is basica...
ISTE Idea #4 - Text to Table (and Wordle) This idea was presented at a Poster session titled "Unleash Cool Unknown Tools with Microsoft Word and OneNote." It wasn't on ...
ISTE Idea - #5 - 100 Word Challenge I saw this at a poster session and am very excited about getting some classrooms to try this 100 Word Challenge this coming year. In a nuts...
Persuasive Writing Video I have to teach a model class in an ELA classroom tomorrow using ClassFlow and Kahoot. I thought I would focus on writing a persuasive/argu...
ACT Aspire Timed Writing Our state just moved to the ACT Aspire test, which students will be taking this year (2015). To say teachers are a little nervous is a huge ...
iMovie Intro Activity When introducing iMovie and all the various bells, whistles, and sound effects that go with it my "go to" activity is the above &q...
October - Anti Bullying Month - Song This is one of my favorite videos/songs sung by 14 year old Rachel Crow. Since October is Anti-Bullying Month I thought I would share how ...
The Power of Positive Thinking Activity I ran into this project walking the halls at one of the schools I go to. It was done in Leslie Larussas' fourth grade class as a creativ...
Book - Unit Plans (Hoot) Hoot is one of my favorite books to read with fourth graders towards the end of the year. It goes well with our study of animals and how hum...
End of Year - Fun Idea I was looking for free end of year tech ideas on TeachersPayTeachers and I came across this fun idea. You make a Word document for each chil...