UR Instructional Tech Integration

I spent about 3 hours over the course of several days looking through various online resources from ISTE11. It is amazing that we can listen to recordings of actual sessions from the conference. I think the hardest part was navigating through the endless amounts of information and pep talks available and finding information that I [...]

I found a very informative powerpoint presentation on the life cycle of the butterfly.  The photos were great but the slides of text had to go.  For classroom use, I would save the text in my notes to discuss with the class.  My changes to the presentation were basic-blow up good photos and take away [...]

Anyone know how to add powerpoint slides to a blog post? I can link to them but I can’t get the actual slide to show on the post.

Thanks.

Danielle

  I found a new movie trailer from Mr. Popper’s Penguins that I would use to prompt a question for the class–CAN PENGUINS REALLY LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY?  This is related to the third grade science SOLs 3.4 and 3.6 regarding physical adaptations of animals and the types of living environments that support diverse plants and [...]

1.  “Vision trumps all other senses.” from Brain Rules by John Medina 2.  Powerpoint is my digital slide projector. (from Mr. Meyer’s blog) 3.   from How Cognitive Science Can Improve Your Powerpoint Presentations. Avoid giving more than four pieces of info at once.  Viewers are unable to process more. [...]

  Being new to google reader, I went crazy last week and subscribed to 17 different blogs.  Also being someone who feels the need to read everything in front of me, I unsubscribed to several of them within a few days.  It was overwhelming.  Here are the ones I thought worth keeping: PROFESSIONAL Classroom Solutions  [Read more]