Winter Olympics lesson plans and resources

Bycollinsr January 12, 2006

Kathy Schrock has put together a ton of resources for using the Winter Olympics in your classroom, including the history of the Olympics, lesson plans, and activities. Check them out at her website.

Create PDF forms for free, online. Go paperless with documents you already have

Bycollinsr October 10, 2012

I had this extension installed in Chrome for awhile, PDFescape, but today was the first time I ‘ve really had a chance to look at it. It allows you to type on PDFs or create forms out of PDFs. Once created, these PDFs can be filled out by students online through the PDFescape website, Apple…

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National Parks virtual field trips resources

Bycollinsr March 2, 2021March 2, 2021

At the fall state technology coordinators meeting links to national parks virtual field trips was shared. The document is 9 pages of information and links to several national parks and other entities that are offering virtual field trips. Quite a few are free to boot!

Education

Five percent of adults illiterate

Bycollinsr December 19, 2005

According to an article on CNN, The National Assessment of Adult Literacy: “About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.” It goes on further that 19 million American adults have “below basic” skills, which…

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Students and communication

Bycollinsr January 6, 2006

The ‘millennials’ usher in a new era brings up some interesting points in the education of the next generation. For their grandparents, the bicycle was a symbol of childhood independence. Today, for many kids and young adults, it is the Internet. “It consumes my life,” said Andrea Thomas, a senior at Miami University. “If I’m…

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Are teenagers tech savvy?

Bycollinsr October 24, 2005

Some adults are intimidated by the the technological knowledge of today’s youth, but it appears that kids today are not as good with technology as they appear. The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web. When dealing with students and technology, one…

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Project Based Learning in your Virtual Classroom

Bycollinsr March 15, 2020

With all of the talk about distance learning and how are teachers going to manage classrooms and instruction for the next 3-4 weeks, people are too focused on trying to do what is done in the classroom virtually. We can’t repackage what is already done into a digital format. That is a recipe for disaster….

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