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Help at Home Apps
Two apps are going to help me clean up my act in 2014: Big Oven and Red Stamp. See why I love these apps: Big Oven: I cannot take credit for discovering this one. My husband found it all on his own...
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Our Digital Journey: Building a Team
This is the second post in a series entitled “Our Digital Journey”. Click here to read my first post describing why and how Cecil Intermediate School has embarked upon a digital literacy initiative…...
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Our Digital Journey: Selecting the Tools
This is the third post in a series documenting the digital literacy initiative at Cecil Intermediate School. If you like this post, you may want to read “What Do You Value” and “Building a Team”....
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Our DIY Bench/Table/Ottoman
At the beginning of the year, I had my students learn about the brain and how the different parts function. Then we read a few articles about how people learn. We continued our study by dissecting...
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Giving Individuals a Voice with Padlet
Looking for an easy way for students to SHARE their learning? Padlet is a terrific, FREE tool! I encourage my students to share what they are reading frequently. The students are much more likely to...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Point?
This post is dedicated to my wonderfully patient colleagues at CIS who may still be waiting for me to get to the point. I often struggle with spoken communication. This is a difficult admission for an...
View ArticleFear Project Reflection Video
So, what did the kids really think about the Fear Project? I decided to ask them. First, they created reflection posts on Kidblog. You can view some of them here: Mrs. Lavallee’s Homeroom Kidblog...
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Poem in Your Pocket Day 2016
There is just something about pocket-sized anything that is so appealing! I’ll be honest, I had never heard of of Poem in Your Pocket Day until I read this post by Shannon Miller. Here is a...
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