Image via Wikipedia Did you know you can save time and effort by starting a Frequently Asked Questions Discussion Board in your course? Do you get tired of answering the same student questions over and over? Save time and effort by starting a Frequent Asked Questions forum in your course! It is a pu[...]
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November 13th, 2009 - 2:48 pm § in Blogging, TeacherHax
Beast Bloggers Content Plan
Image by solbronumberone via Flickr This is a presentation I made to help my Beast Bloggers’ Support Group create a Content Plan for their blogs. I wanted them to take a broad view of their objectives and strengths as they develop their blogging identities. I had them list out their objectives[...]
Podcast an Audiobook to Reach Struggling Readers
Image via Wikipedia Even in the upper grades, students are struggling to make the transition from “learning-to-read” to “reading-to-learn”. Give a struggling reader a context-reduced novel written in old, antiquated language and you will realize that students need as much lif[...]
Have students RECORD key assignments as MP3s so you can listen, not read.
As an English teacher, I always felt like I was drowning in a sea of papers. I needed to get the students to do high quality thinking, and the only way I knew how to evaluate that thinking was through their writing. Last semester, I got smart and had them turn in their final art [...][...]
May 9th, 2008 - 1:56 pm § in TeacherHax
Icebreakers
Nothing keeps up class morale than silly games. Usually, I do these at the beginning of the year to help get to know the kids, but I’ve recently learned how valuable it can be to play a silly game when deadlines are coming and grades are due. 15 minutes of silliness can go a long [...][...]
May 8th, 2008 - 11:20 pm § in TeacherHax
Use your iPhone to control your computer from across the room? SICK!!!
TouchPad Pro turns your jailbroken iPhone into a wireless remote control for your computer, allowing you to mouse, type, and control presentations from anywhere in your classroom, wirelessly. I’m sure there are as many ways to use this as there are teachers. I have used it to advance my classr[...]
May 8th, 2008 - 5:29 am § in EdTech, TeacherHax
Guilt-Free Sick Days: Post your slideshow on your web page!
We’ve all been there: you wake up in the morning and realize “there’s no WAY I can go in to school today!” So you call the substitute and hope that your students don’t have a totally unproductive day without you.[...]
May 7th, 2008 - 8:42 pm § in TeacherHax
Personalize your homepage with everything you need to see in one place!
I use iGoogle (formerly known as Google personalized home) as a way of seeing all of my important information in one place. I have little widgets for my email, to do list, docs, calendar, RSS reader, and my favorite blog headlines. You can customize it so that all of the most important information T[...]
May 6th, 2008 - 3:02 am § in TeacherHax
Google Docs: For groupwork, it rocks!
One of the most revolutionary new products that I’ve brought into my school this year is Google Docs. GDocs is an online office suite (a la MS Office) with a word processor, spreadsheets, and presentation software. On their own, they are fine products (although typing a paper on the web still [...]
May 6th, 2008 - 2:48 am § in TeacherHax
Engrade »My favorite (free) online gradebook
Engrade »My favorite (free) online gradebook I have messed with lots of gradebook programs, and most just leave me wanting. Most that I’ve tried are sluggish behemoths that prevent me from doing what seems natural and intuitive. I have finally fallen in love with Engrade because it is fast, r[...]
