about 3 years ago - 8 comments
I was trying to gather up some of the links from projects that my students did this past school year, now that they have left for summer vacation and another school as they make the big leap up to a combined middle and high school. But looking at the list of these projects, and thinking More >
about 3 years ago - 1 comment
Yesterday, the fifth grade classes held their annual Living History Museum (students dressed up as and acted as people from history) and the Virtual Art Museum Project that I helped from a technology angle went on display, too. We had a line of laptops along the wall, with headphones jacked in, and visitors to the More >
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
Along with classroom teacher, I am also one of the technology coordinators at our school. It sounds better than it is. Usually, it means fixing wires, turning on someone’s printer when they think it is just broken, or making sure the laptop cart is all charged up. Glory work, really. I would like to find More >
about 3 years ago - No comments
My students are fully immersed right now in creating Digital Math Picture Books, using PowerPoint as the platform for creation and MS Paint as the (cumbersome) illustration tool. Despite the many limitations of both of those software programs, they are hard at work and fully engaged in creating picture book stories that weave mathematical elements More >
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
Every now and then, I like to share out some of the projects my students are engaged with in the classroom. The past two weeks, we have been working on Figurative Language as we gear up for poetry, and then songwriting. I wrote a post about the use of hyperbole for tall tales over at More >
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
Glazed eyes often accompany my unit on Parts of Speech and I don’t think it is my teaching style (he says, confidentally). It’s that the concept of how words act within the structure of a sentence is so incredibly abstract for my sixth graders that they can’t connect it with their own base of knowledge. More >
about 4 years ago - 1 comment
I teach writing to 11 year olds but that doesn’t stop me from injecting some political current events into our activities. I remind them that they need to pay attention to the world, as it is their world that is being developed right now. The political season in the US provides us teachers with an More >
about 4 years ago - 1 comment
Yesterday, I shared out some of the results of a survey that I gave to my sixth graders. Today, I am sharing out some of the comments they added for two questions: First, if they said that schools should teach them how to use technology to connect with other students, then I asked them More >
about 4 years ago - 1 comment
Usually, once a year, I try to give an online survey (using Survey Monkey) to my sixth graders to get a sense of how they are using technology and how they perceive technology and education. The first seven questions that I posed to my students were itemized and the last two questions were short answers. More >
about 4 years ago - No comments
Yesterday, I wrote about my investigation into video, particularly as it pertains to sharing and showcasing student work with families via the Web. (In this most recent case, it is puppets. But later in the year, it will be claymation and animation and other projects). The following website is the result of that exploration. I More >
about 3 years ago
Great stuff Kevin. I appreciated the diversity of responses. Everyone is a bit different but all have their own fears and aspirations.
about 3 years ago
Your students sound very confident and enthused. What a great way to build excitement for the year and set goals. Must be fun to listen to the early poems at the end of the year. Voices must go up an octave or so in some cases.
about 3 years ago
Thanks Gail and Matt
(And Gail might recognize some of the voices, as she taught many of them in kindergarten)
Kevin
about 3 years ago
Hi Kevin,
I love the way you use various interactive tools with your students to engage them. I just started reading your blog this week and will continue to come back. Your posts have given me a lot of ideas for a blog that I am helping develop for NFIB’s Young Entrepreneur Foundation. Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Julie
http://youngentrepreneurfoundation.wordpress.com/
about 3 years ago
Julie
Glad I could be of help and best of luck with your blog.
Kevin