Morning News Shows and How To Create Video Overlays with a Windows Device This week I have been working with several schools as they start putting together their morning news program for the school year. Almost exc...
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...
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...
Eagle Cam Check out the Berry College Bald Eagle Cam at http://www.berry.edu/eaglecam/ It is super addictive! I love showing it to children and havin...
Black History Video Project February is Black History Month and I am working with some teachers to help students produce research videos. The video above is one I com...
Lion King Jr. - Production Roles (PBL) This past week I worked with an elementary school that is putting on a production of The Lion King Jr. They are a project based learning (...
Snowflake Matter Activity (and Video) Click on THIS LINK to view the student video Yesterday I worked with two groups of third graders at the end of their matter unit. The teach...
My First Green Screen Video I finally figured out how to do a Touchcast video...after lots of practice...and attending a webinar put on by the company. I used my Stud...
End of Year Activity - Flextangle I saw this "flextangle" activity on Facebook and thought I could modify it for academic content. In the example I choose WW2 (prim...
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...
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 ...
Back-To-School Presentation Last year I made an “about me” presentation that I used when introducing myself to teachers and students. The goal was to show teachers a...
Classroom Management - New YouTube Favorite Classroom management is the hardest lesson that teachers learn...and sadly it can't be learned in college...it is certainly "talked...
Tech Project - Spinning Acrostic I was looking up different techniques for digital storytelling using PowerPoint when I came across this cool video onYouTube . I liked the...
Secret Door Foldable Another one of my goals this year is to complete 52 pins on Pinterest. So I went through my pins to see if I could isolate the ones I wanted...
How I Teach Writing - Video Here is a video that I made about how I teach writing. I was exploring how teachers can use videoscribing (tech technique - see explanatio...
YouTube Science Songs I asked to help a group of 8th grade teachers who were given iPads this year to come up with some science lesson activities that students co...
Read Across America - Dr. Suess and Science Tomorrow is Read Across America Day and I have been asked to be a guest reader in two schools. The first school I will be reading ...
Social Studies, Art, ELA, and Paul Revere I saw this in one of the hallways at a school I work in and I really liked the concept. The art teacher tied in learning about people in the...