Tip of the Week – Ready, Set, Go, Whoa!

One of the first graphic organizers that I was taught to use was the KWL chart. It’s almost a cliché anymore.
Why? Because it was overused. Kids got tired of it.
Mostly because most kids didn’t use it the way it was intended. I taught middle school and when most of my kids got to the “What [...]

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The Girl Effect

Powerful stuff! The message is remarkable but you can watch the video just for the incredible effectiveness of the technique.
The Girl Effect is the work of the Nike and NoVo Foundations. It’s not necessarily new work, organizations such as the Mennonite Central Committee have been working with micro-loans for some time. But it is still [...]

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Grand Theft Childhood: Debunking video game myths

I’m just finishing up my most recent trip into the research regarding video games and am very impressed. Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson, both doctors of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, have written a very balanced and open-minded book titled Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Video Games and What Parents Can Do. The [...]

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Compfight looking for ideas

A previous post highlighted a couple of newer Flickr search tools that have come out. The intent was to share some resources that teachers (and their students) could use to locate copyright friendly images. I was especially intrigued with Compfight, a nice tool that provides a series of search filters. One that I like allows [...]

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Flickr search tools

I had the chance to work with a small group of middle school teachers the last two days as they developed teaching activities in geography and history. One of the questions that came up as we were creating placemark descriptions in Google Earth was
Where can I find good images that are copyright free?
It’s a common [...]

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