Thriving in School

In the last post I tried a new application that gives you the option to hear the text. Some of us may not have needed it, some may have fou...

Things I am reflecting on after attending the Educon2.0 conference in Philly several weeks ago: putting kids at the center of their learning...

FreeRice is a site that lets you do good while getting smarter! How cool is that? For every vocabulary word you get correct, it donates 2...

Take a digital image (from your cellphone camera or digital camera) and turn it into a sharable document. - Scribbled ideas on napkins - Whi...

My New Favorite Tool! Why? It's Simple (the less clicks it requires, the more we are apt to use it) It's adaptable (can be used in ...

Tagging - the act of labeling your luggage for quick identification at the airport carousel Wiki - short for wiki sticks, those waxed piec...

Blogs,Wikis, RSS, Message Boards...is your head spinning yet? There are so many new technology tools we could use if we just knew what they ...

Do you want to get you students excited about writing? Here is a great free resource mentioned by the tech chicks in their recent podcast ...

While walking the Walk for Hunger this past weekend, I had a chance to listen to some podcasts on my ipod . Have you ever heard the Tech C...

No, I am not talking about the ones eating my son's computer cable at his house in Philly, shared with other City Year volunteers. I...

Never before has it been so easy to produce and share content, whether it is music, video or writing. You can even publish and sell your ow...

Students do a variety of writing in school, by hand and on the computer. Providing experiences with both is beneficial, but don't use a ...

Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere. Have you looked beyond the basic search feature of Google? One useful...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso It is so easy to be a life long learner this...

Fifteen years ago, the web went world wide. That means the students we work with at Hosmer School are all born AWWW (after world wide web)...

Microsoft Word enables you to have text in Word documents read aloud. When using the computers in the library and computer room, simply make...