From East Lansing to Detroit

Just when I think they have invented everything along comes something even newer.  From the company that has eliminated the need for a set of encyclopedias comes a product that can eliminate the need for Microsoft Office: Google docs and spreadsheets.   With adequate internet access a person can complete a presentation without having to remember to [...]

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     This article by Maureen Brown Yoder is another great example of how we can use the endless resources of the world wide web to construct a project.  I can relate to her report about Geroge Washington.  I had the privlege of having a set of encyclopedias and National Geographics from 1968 on in my [...]

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             Let me tell you about The Chamber Music Challenge by Dana Warren.  The program as written in the description involves 7th-grade students composing original music to be performed by their friends and peers who are in band and orchestra.  The audience includes 7-8 graders or 9-12 graders who are good at reading music and [...]

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How would you integrate WebQuests into your classroom?  I would train my students to work on their webquest project without me.  This way I can rehearse some students and have others work on a project such as composing music which teaches music theory.  These are available on webquest.  Because of the wide variety of abilities [...]

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This is a great lecture to remind us that we are teachers first and computer programmers next.  I like using constructivism with computer projects.  This is what computers were designed to do which is to collect, calculate and distribute information it has constructed. 
Bell discusses two approaches to constrictivism.  I do not believe inquiry would be [...]

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This lecture is a excellent resource for teaching methods applying to learning with a lesson online or with a computer program.  It is a good reminder for me to focus on how to make this work.  I like his metaphor of teaching where we have to imagine we can only teach using a text book.  [...]

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Teachers, have you ever created a lesson plan that just taught itself?  Not only would it satisfy curriculum requirements, but the students also pick up on everything being taught?  Have you ever come across those lessons?  Well neither have I, but I believe WebQuest assignments can come close. 
After reading the article “WebQuest” by Annette Lamb [...]

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Timing is everything.  Marc Prensky’s article “Listening to the Natives” is the perfect article to begin a course in teaching technology and/or encourage the use of technology in the classrooms.  He sites examples of how other countries are using more technology than the US.  As an example the use of cell phones to construct projects.
Then like a dropped call [...]

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