Website roulette

I am very pleased with our Schoolpointe website and I am very pleased with the way a lot of our teachers are using this tool in their classroom. Here are a few things teachers are doing with it:

• Spanish teacher collaborating with another Spanish teacher in another state and collaborating with her and her students using the built-in blogging feature.
• Elementary school teachers uploading and embedding videos in their websites so parents can view student work. I like this because now the students have a larger audience to see their work; not just the teacher viewing it.
• Video blogs
• Teacher favorites webpages with pictures

Please let me know what your are doing.

Dishman McGinnis

I am in sunny Phoenix Arizona at a conference on a new tool you may be interested in: Digital Nation. I understand there is 2 or 3 inches of snow in KY. Just so you know I am thinking of you guys...

I had a great time sharing some good information with Dishman McGinnis on Jan. 19. I love going to all the schools and appreciate Mr. Wix inviting me. As always, I would be glad to come anytime and hangout with any school.

We began our discussion about the importance of great teaching... then find some technology that helps engage the students in the lesson. I am desperately in the midst of a paradigm shift of accentuating the great teaching first and encouraging teachers to teach...then let's look at a technology tool that helps the student engage and appreciate the objective. Attached is a .pdf of the professional development I shared.

FYI. The file was created in a template from Microsoft Word. It looks great and only takes a couple of clicks to get it.

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