I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I had a wonderful 2016, and I’ve loved sharing the exciting things that my students did with technology last year. However, I’m ready for a fresh start, and I’m so excited
The second in my Reflections on Seesaw series, today I will share ways I’m using Seesaw in my classroom right now. After using the Seesaw app for half a year, I’ve expanded its uses in my classroom beyond just a
In some of my recent posts from this school year, I have mentioned using the Seesaw app. Seesaw is a digital portfolio for housing student work and sharing it with parents, but it is so much more than that, too.
I’ve had some thoughts percolating since SC EdTech at the beginning of November. I attended some great sessions, and there were so many great things I learned that I want to share. Over Thanksgiving break I reviewed my notes and
Since the beginning of school, I’ve been trying to get my students to develop their ideas in their writing in an organized manner. We started off looking at paragraph organization using the hamburger writing technique to develop a paragraph with
My students have been learning about place value and different ways to represent numbers using place value. I introduced the unit with a Nearpod lesson on place value to assess what students already knew. We also got out our place
Over our fall break unexpected break earlier in the month due to Hurricane Matthew, I decided to work on my reading and math data walls. In case you are not familiar, a data wall helps organize your student data. We
I recently shared 4 ways to use Padlet in the classroom. If you didn’t read that post, please go check out 6 Ways to Use Padlet in the Classroom: Part One. If you did, you can probably tell from that
Padlet is a great online application to use in the classroom. If you’ve never used it, you really should check it out. You can use it like an online bulletin board, backchannel, and/or collaborative tool. I’m not sure who introduced it,