Blogger’s Cafe opens 2011

So, I’ve been thinking about student blogging and what to do differently this year. Last year I used Edublogs and each student had his or her own blog on a topic of his or her choosing. The students liked the “Blogger’s Cafe” idea and wrote some good posts. But, we never really got much in [...]

A Conference of Equals

So, I’ve been thinking about our ePortfolios, again. Working on them on the iPads is a little tricky. The eporfolios are wikis which, while easy to view on the iPad, are a pain to edit. You see all the formatting coding and it’s hard to do a lot more than insert text. But, I love [...]

iPad Update, the Shortest Version

So, I’m still thinking about iPads and my 1-1 iPad experiment. Here’s how I might summarize it in as few words as possible: Are the iPads everything I could ever want? NO Is being a 1-1 (of some sort of technology) classroom what I want? YES Would I like laptops sometimes? YES Has anyone offered [...]

Transformation

So, I’ve been doing a lot of planning for the next weeks and new year and it’s seeming like this year is going to be a big change. I know, it’s after winter break and I’m a little late to be noticing this key fact. (Since I started this post ages ago, it’s really been [...]

iPads Appear in my Closet, Update

So, I’ve been thinking about iPads. As my regular readers, all 3 of them, know, I am now the proud teacher of a class with 1 iPad per student. This post is a little overdue, but with all the excitement and then all the holiday cooking and eating, I got behind on a number of things. [...]

My Happy Closet

So, here’s what I found in my classroom closet yesterday morning.

iPads, iPads, someone’s getting iPads

So, I’ve been thinking and thinking about iPads recently. Someone I know, maybe her name is Ms. Eiteljorg, is getting a set of iPads for her classroom. I’m super excited; my students are giddy. And, I’m also a little nervous. I want this to be a good experiment. You know the kind where everyone learns [...]