UR Instructional Tech Integration

Graphic Organizers are great for all grades. It is helpful in the organization of concepts that are learned in every subject.  Some popular graphic organizers I have seen are the KWL and Story Webs. I like KWL charts because they can be used from kindergarten through adult learning.  Story Webs are great for the younger [...]

I think that using an interesting piece of photography or series of photographs could spark the interest of the students. I think a great time to use media is in creative writing. The photograph or photographs could be used as a writing prompt. This would help those students that cannot get started on creative story but [...]

I found this video of a remix of Barrack Obama and some of his famous political speeches. I was thinking about in older grades such as middle or high school, teaching how one word or thing a person says can be distorted and altered to make it sound negative or positive. I want my students [...]

I had used Google Reader in the past. It helped me read as many websites at one time in one place. It created a convenient way to get the latest news and also follow blogs. 5 Professional Sites: 1) . Chalk talk: A Kindergarten Blog -  I like this blog because it shares other blogs and ideas [...]

Second Life and the rest of the virtual fantasy world is a little too much for me. I think that Second Life takes away from a person’s real life. I guess I just prefer real life to a virtual life. I looked through a few areas and saw you could take online courses. I guess [...]

I finally joined the rest of the cyber- nerds and joined twitter. My overall impression before was one that you could follow celebrities and hear about their insignificant day to day happenings. I could really careless about what Spencer Pratt or Heidi Montag are up to. I joined and began following a few education twitter [...]

Technology is a double-edged sword. The internet has given access to so much knowledge but at the same time it has caused the youth of America to grow up too fast. I work as a substitute teacher and the things that I hear in the middle school are amazing. Students are talking about “adult” things [...]

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Kindergarten Newsletter

Although a great Powerpoint slide show can help a presenter make a presentation great, it is the person and how they can relate the material. I came across this presentation on Slideshare. I am extremely interested in health food and human nutrition. Part of my undergraduate studies involved studying food science and nutrition. This topic is…[Read more]

Whenever I think about PowerPoint presentations, I am brought back to my undergraduate days and my Economics professor who read text directly from the slide and coincidentally the text was directly from the book. The tedium of lecture is credited with me becoming the master of Bejeweled. As an educator, it is important to know that [...]