Posted in Classroom Web Pages on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
This noon a 4th grade teacher asked me if she could “send” to all the laptops the URL of the page I wanted students to access. I asked her, “Why not put them on your web page? Then the learning doesn’t have to stop after the bus leaves the school yard” “No,” she replied, ” [...]
Posted in Classroom Web Pages on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve struggled with this for so long; so now I discover a new trick. Encouragement by students !
When I’ve had a chance to be in a teacher’s classroom, I take the opportunity to ask the students a few questions. Usually, after a particularly exciting web site or project, I ask them “How many of you [...]
Posted in Classroom Web Pages on Apr 14th, 2008 No Comments »
While working with Jim Moulton (jrmoulton.googlepages.com) last week, we witnessed the effectiveness of teacher web pages in the elementary lab while working with 4th graders on a biography unit. Earlier in the day we took the teacher’s list of famous folks, and each taking a few names, found one appropriate site for the students.Jim added [...]
