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Will your best friend forever write back soon? I don’t know, but if your letter writing skills (email or pen and paper) aren’t up to snuff, no one is going to write back any time soon. We frequently teach students proper letter writing formats, but that’s for the printed page. What happens when email, chat, or [...] You have probably been using NetTrekker a lot with your students, but what about for yourself? Try the Teacher Tools area for lesson plans, classroom management tips, or find experts to answer your (or your students’) questions. Another worthy area to visit is the new NetTrekker Village website which is a place for teachers to [...] With the recent Land’s End student art contest winner coming from Chatham, we may want to encourage more of our students to enter art contests! Google is famous (among other things) for having its logo change to represent notable days such as Election Day and Einstein’s birthday. While Google has an artist on staff [...] Did you just take a bunch of photos on a class field trip? Did you shoot all those pictures of your students’ science fair projets at maximum resolution? Are you wondering how to shrink all those 2.3 MB photos AND rename them to something other than IMG_2733? Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a powerful, yet SIMPLE, [...] Spring is in the air, and teachers may be looking for ways to get their classes outside to experience biodiversity, data collection, and scientific inquiry. From how to tell the time and date to using binoculars to habitat association, the Washington NatureMapping Program gives teachers a slew of opportunities to collect data, learn about scientific [...] Wondering whether or not they had been fragged by their children and students, Chatham parents, teachers, and administrators attended a series of talks given by David Warlick about the use of video games in education. The Chatham Education Foundation hosted the presentations yesterday at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township. Warlick’s own handouts are [...] Are your fingers sore from cutting so many coupons? Are you wearing out your sweaters after turning the heat down to 55° in the house? You might find Retail-Me-Not a website worth visiting. This website specializes in finding coupon codes to use in online shopping. Your mouse-clicking finger may get sore, but think of how [...] For those of you attending Kathleen O’Connor’s professional development workshops for mathematics, you know how playing games in class can help students apply their knowledge of mathematical principals, so why not have them play video games? Like having a cell phone in school, the notion of video games in class widens eyes, raises eyebrows and starts [...] |
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