tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58827308592890788842024-02-07T00:19:35.951-05:00Techno Fusioneherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-7397248852004860242016-12-02T10:01:00.000-05:002016-12-02T10:04:18.080-05:00Hour of Code 2016Well its been almost a year since the last time it and its almost time again for Hour of Code. Yes, that's right you did not miss it and there is still plenty of time to get yourself, classroom and students ready to participate.
What do you need to get started? A room with a bunch of eager to learn students... maybe even a bunch of eager to learn teachers as well. An internet eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-40179056386345009912016-08-30T15:15:00.000-04:002016-08-30T15:18:52.276-04:00Coding in the Classroom: My List of Resources
Its the start of school and now is best time to get your students motivated to learn about coding. Whether you have a computer, tablet, cell phone or nothing at all you can help your kids to really get interested in and wanting to learn more about coding.
Here is my list of websites and apps that you and your students can use in or out of your classroom to learn about coding. Who eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-77137197495504457152016-08-15T08:40:00.000-04:002016-08-15T08:40:33.666-04:00Learning to Code Emoji StyleIf you are still looking for a way that your students can learn to code in a fun way why not try something different. If you could teach your students to code in their language would it help? Now I know that you have heard me talk about the benefits of Codeacademy, Code.org and Scratch over the years but why not try something a little out of the ordinary that may be able to eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-65097151557784512172016-06-13T09:27:00.000-04:002016-06-13T09:29:00.257-04:00Stop Motion Animation on a Budget in your Classroom.We all love a good story, getting hooked as it keeps you on the edge of your seat as you wait impatiently in suspense for what comes next. Have you ever wondered to yourself if that story could be changed ever so slightly so that it could literally come to life. Now I know some of you just raised your hand, your eyebrow or smirked a little thinking hey Evan isn't that what movie eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-35236624255951056442015-06-12T09:36:00.000-04:002015-06-12T09:36:24.097-04:00Quick and Easy Green-screening for School News
Have you ever wondered how they do all those neat effects in the movies or how they do the weather broadcasts on your favorite news show? Its called green-screening, and it is a whole lot of fun and really easy to do. Yes I said easy to do.
Recently a school in the district that I work for asked me about kicking their news show up a notch by doing something with eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-78336981833462305362015-04-14T21:47:00.001-04:002015-04-14T21:47:29.613-04:00Adjust your Reading Habits with Google Search ToolsRecently I was working with a group of fourth grade teachers on North Carolina Lighthouses and the comment came up from one of the teachers. "Doing a Google search is difficult for some of our students because they are not able to understand some of what they are reading. I wish there was an easier way for them to research material that is more aligned to how they read." I let eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-53175063212727290712014-09-02T14:42:00.001-04:002014-09-02T14:42:03.983-04:00School News: Teachable Moments Can Be Awesome
There’s
a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in education and in life called the
Teachable Moment.
Now
this can be characterized by some sort of learning that is happening between students
and teachers or between parents and children.
It can be planned out as part of an activity or it can be
spontaneous. Which is better?
It
would depend on who you ask as to eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-49176530952191780342014-06-03T12:41:00.004-04:002014-06-03T12:41:59.514-04:00School News: Making A Difference
Well it is hard to believe that it is the end of the school year and I have not written my third installment of School News. I have been working hard with a number of schools in the area to help them develop their news program from the ground up or to improve existing shows to make them more informative and interactive. The teachers and students have expressed how much fun it has eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-6234484745470028782014-04-28T09:50:00.000-04:002014-04-28T09:50:33.556-04:00Preparing Rising 6 & 9th Graders with Multimedia
As a 6 and 9th grade teacher you prepare every year to get a brand new crop of wide eyed students that have no idea of what they are in for as they move into Middle and High School. Most of these students will not get much information in the way of what to expect as they move from one school to the next. This is a big step for either grade level. So what can we do to prepare eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-55725150988162226502014-04-01T14:52:00.000-04:002014-04-01T15:51:58.628-04:00What's In A House, What Can You Live Without?
So I recently decided to put my home on the market to see if I could take advantage of the recent uptrend in home sales in my area.
When I decided to do this I panicked a little bit, not because I would have to keep my home clean - that is easy, because I would have to pack up all the gizmos, gadgets and other technology items that I use every single day!
The first weekeherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-33350565024312096952014-03-31T10:00:00.000-04:002014-03-31T10:00:02.214-04:00What's In A Web Page - Things You Should Be Sharing. Part II
Reviewing and getting your students ready for testing always seems to be a daunting task but think of making things easier because as you prepare your students in the classroom for what they will need to know for the testing why not remind them and their parents from your teacher website. It would be great to add information onto your website that will help students beyond the classroom.  eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-37587893613595877342014-03-25T15:20:00.000-04:002014-03-25T15:20:19.269-04:00Geddit And Don't Forget ItSo I found an interesting new site today that I thought I would share with you. for some this might be old hat for others its brand new and you will really like it.
Let me start with some questions:
How many times does a student come up to you after the class to say that they really do not understand the material?
How often in class do you ask a question where you get the blank stairs or eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-44447531508831294382014-03-24T16:16:00.000-04:002014-03-24T16:16:34.677-04:00What's In A Web Page - Things You Should Be Sharing. Part I
Let me start by asking you this question…
What do you do when you open a web page to a site that you think has information about spring and Summer clothing and it is still talking about the upcoming fall collection?
You would open up another web page with the information on it that you are looking for....right?
That is the same thing that happens if a parent, community eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-37347892316086657762014-01-16T13:48:00.000-05:002014-01-16T13:48:02.702-05:00Sports Broadcasting 101
I have been working very hard the past couple of months with a number of different schools both in and out of my district to help guide and build their School News broadcasts. Now I get to delve into another medium that is just a little aside from where I have been going along for a while now. It is time to get into Sports Broadcasting. This is something that really has myeherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-64193903680976323052014-01-06T09:24:00.000-05:002014-01-06T09:24:19.738-05:00First Look: Lumens DC-125 Document Camera
Let's take a look at the new DC-125 Document Camera from Lumens. I recently got the opportunity to take a look at this little wonder. Yes this device is smaller than its other family members from Lumens, close to one half the size of the others in the line.
Now just like the rest of the model lines from Lumens over the years the DC-125 also has a flexible armature, commonly known eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-3358450554886867082013-12-11T14:50:00.001-05:002013-12-11T14:53:09.998-05:00Games in the Classroom
How many times have you asked a student to put away their cell phone because when you asked them what they were doing they said playing a game. How often do you take your students into the computer lab to do an assignment or project and you catch them playing games on the computers. Why is it that we are so adamant about keeping games out of the classroom? Or is it that we eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-42104727440530746512013-11-08T13:39:00.000-05:002014-09-28T10:29:00.155-04:00School News: Drum Up Some Business
Let’s
see, equipment… check, location… check, now that you have these things setup
what’s next? Hmm… oh yeah I need some
backing to make sure that the School News is a success.
Me,
I’m always one to get permission first rather than ask for forgiveness
later. So I would first talk to your
school Principal about this new opportunity at the school to help students with
literacy,eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-69605722600985813402013-10-30T10:33:00.000-04:002013-10-30T10:33:02.267-04:00What’s in a name….BYOD, MLC, BYOT?
I have taken a journey over the past
6 months or so regarding my own personal learning as it pertains to the bring
your own philosophy in schools. I have
been hearing, seeing, reading and talking about it and never really knew what
the big idea was. It seemed to me to be
a good idea but when I would ask people how they were using the devices most of
the time I would receive a eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-68033769454779901882013-09-23T23:14:00.000-04:002014-09-28T10:29:33.205-04:00An Inside Look at School NewsYour Principal comes to you and asks you to start up a news broadcast at your school. What do you do? Where do you start? Well, it seems like I have been living this dream for a couple of months straight now and want to share some tips and tricks with you on what I have done as I talk with schools. Now this is just what I have done and by no means is the end all be all of setup eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-38364598418587083272013-04-24T10:47:00.002-04:002013-04-24T10:47:37.044-04:00The Good, Bad and Ugly on Ladibug 2.0 Software2.0 or not 2.0 that will be the question that is answered hopefully at the end of this Blog post.
Recently the Lumens company has updated its software for its famous Ladibug brand document cameras (Doc Cam). When Lumens decided to update from the earlier Queue to Ladibug software it was a huge transition for users to get accustomed to, but was also leaps ahead in the features that it eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-24862288962501747662013-01-17T14:44:00.000-05:002013-01-17T14:44:58.367-05:00Restaurant Dining meet TechnologyWell you know that technology has made an impact when your dining experience has been enhanced through the use of technology.
How many times have you been to a restaurant in a group when the conversation dies out? Have you been out with your kids and they are fidgeting around at the table and don;t know what to do with them? Most people pull out their cell phones and will hop on the eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-78105272606136893132012-10-26T10:57:00.000-04:002012-10-26T10:57:06.929-04:00Making the Elections Relavent
As this year's Elections draw closer and closer do your students really know what is going on?
With all of the ads on TV, radio and the internet it may be difficult for your students to see the big picture as you explain the election process to them.
Although this can be discussed in all grade levels it is more prevalent right now for students that are in the eighth grade. How might you ask?eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-13259536920705357572012-07-05T11:09:00.000-04:002012-07-05T11:09:12.416-04:00Starting the Day with a Wonder
Let me tell you a little about how I like to find fun things for
students to do in class to start the day off right. I think that the old saying is that Breakfast
is the most important meal of the day and that students need it to start the
day off in a good way. Well I think that
we also need to start their classroom day off right as well. Something that feeds their minds when eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-62515239856972527862012-05-16T09:47:00.002-04:002012-05-16T09:48:14.838-04:00Learning Through the Summer
Now that we are closing in on the end of the school year the big question is how to extend your students learning throughout the summer. Do you give the students reading lists that you hope they will do? Do you want them to sit in front of a computer all summer? Do we have to follow the norm like ducklings behind their mother? Now don't misunderstand me I am open for eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882730859289078884.post-43612362085214376362012-05-03T11:10:00.001-04:002012-05-03T11:10:15.667-04:00Making the Most of Virtual Field TripsHave you ever asked your students if they could go anywhere in the world where would that be? Are you worried about the answers that you might get, don't? With the budget issues we are always looking for alternative ways students can get an understanding of not only their immediate surroundings but what it is like around the world. Yes we study World Cultures, US History, eherreidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03979614420434719617noreply@blogger.com0