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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll discover ten topics that can help you improve your online or blended classroom.

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Paul Solarz and His Student Centered Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Episode 73 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blog: [link]. Paul Solarz has been teaching fifth grade at Westgate Elementary School in Arlington Heights, since 1999. Genius Hour) and maintain personal ePortfolios of their work in class.

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4 Powerful Ways to Implement Class Blogs – From Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections. Blogs as ePortfolio.

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New Posted Resources 10/21/2010

The Web20Classroom

tags : blog favorite classroom_blogging Googlios tags : eportfolio googleapps favorite Posted from Diigo.

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Authentic Assessments to Support Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

For example, students can use a blogging tool to post summer book reviews for students, and the librarian can mediate a conversation around their reading and writing. He now serves as an elementary principal for the Mineral Point Unified School District. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. About the Presenter.

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It’s Not About Google (Part 4) – SULS047

Shake Up Learning

My favorite method for sharing student work is on a Google Site or a Blogger blog. Blogger is a traditional blogging platform that allows for comment. With a blog post, we can share student work and collect feedback from other students, parents, or experts in the field of study. That’s where I give Blogger the edge.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

Graphite Blog

Units for younger students might include more read aloud content while units for upper elementary or middle school students might focus more heavily on articles or reading parts of non-fiction texts. For elementary age students I recommend looking for ebooks at Epic! -- Unlimited Books for Kids and Zing!,