DiscomBLOGulated!

I’ve been surfing youtube again……
I love the way these kids are really getting the feeling of this Tori Amos song across!

This has great possibilities.  I can’t wait to see what my education peers will do with this!  Thanks to Vicki Davis for showing this to me and for inadvertently challenging me to figure out how to embed a slideshare file into my blog!
[slideshare id=82836&doc=slidecasting-1013073&w=425]

David Warlick brought up something that’s been floating around my head for awhile today.  If no one reads your blog what use is it?  At this point I have about 1 reader, so I mainly blog to myself.  So I use my blog to express myself and also as a handy list of reminders for [...]

http://www.quia.com/rr/36765.html  simple subject and predicate game
http://studyzone.org/testprep/e2topic.cfm?TopicID=349.5  lesson and game on subjects
http://www.argo217.k12.il.us/departs/english/blettiere/simple_subject_quiz_01.htm  simple subject quiz

This week I instructed the 5th graders on how to get to their blogs.  So far I’ve taught 2 of the 3 sections of 5th grade.  The goal of this week’s class is just to get them the directions to get to them not to actually work on an entry.  But so far about 1/2 [...]

Today one of my fellow teachers asked me for some help on setting up a lesson on the SmartBoard.  As we were working she came up with a few more ideas on her own.  I love watching others learn.  It’s this kind of situation that prods me to keep looking for new tools to use [...]

I’ve been turning over some ideas in my head after having a chat with a few of the 5th grade teachers.  A few years ago they put together a wonderful site called “The Greatest Invention Ever”  that tied into a class project by the same name.  That was back in the day when we were [...]

Wow!  This would be an interesting way to start talking about the net with kids.