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Tuesday’s Tool: Evernote – Making Research a Bit Easier
In a recent session our cohort talked about teaching students information literacy skills. The group spent a lot of time dialoguing about how to help student organize and use the information they find...
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Online Tool: Nota
We are always looking for new online tools that allow students to collaborate and share information. The tool Nota is one such tool with these capabilities and so much more. Check out the Nota notebook...
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Stop Motion Animation Made Easy – Part 1
Click for source. Have you ever watched a movie like Wallace and Grommit or The Nightmare Before Christmas or even films like Toy Story or Up and wished that you were good enough to do that? Have you...
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Crocodoc
I have to share a great new tool that a friend of mine, Debbie Perkins, shared with me; Crocodoc. I love this new little tool. Basically this tool allows you to upload PDF’s, documents, or images,...
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Get Ready to Jump to Google Drive
Almost everyone associated with eMINTS – teachers, administrators, instructional specialists -has adopted Google Docs as their preferred online collaboration and production tool. Now, Google is taking...
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Staying Connected & Collaborating
School is out for summer (unless of course you are teaching summer school) and you might be finding that you miss those colleagues you normally see day to day. Your normal routine of getting to talk...
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I Tweat. Therefore, I Learn
I tweeted one request, “Please share your location and current outdoor temperature with my class today.” Throughout the day, the tweets poured in from Australia, Sweden, Spain, New Jersey, Brazil,...
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To Tweat or Not to Tweat
So Twitter can have value to learning in the classroom, but how? We’re studying rocketry and just getting started with blogging and tweeting this year. I wanted to demonstrate how we could reach out...
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Learning Exercises to Promote Thinking
When getting our brains started for the day, it is best exercised by thinking about something that triggers emotions and connections to the world around us. As eMINTS teachers we look for ways to...
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Minecraft in the Classroom: A Real-world Example
You may have seen the above video floating around from the PBS Idea Channel, posing the question of whether the video game Minecraft is the “Ultimate Education tool“. With over 200,000 views and over...
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