Robin Young on February 19th, 2010

Creating avatars in education can help get the creative juices flowing and create safe images to post of the students online.    Here is a list of ideas for using avatars in classrooms: Create book trailers with the avatars representing the characters Teachers can put their avatar in their powerpoints to get the kids attention. Create [...]

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Robin Young on February 11th, 2010

What did I learn today?  I think I will let the word cloud speak for me. This was created with wordle from my google docs notes taken during my workshop today with Tammy Worcester. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robinstechtips.com%2F%3Fp%3D475′; addthis_title = ‘TCEA+%26%238211%3B+What+I+learned+today’; addthis_pub = ”;

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Robin Young on February 8th, 2010

Want to make a difference in your classroom? Let your students know how they are doing! The most powerful single modification that enhances achievement is feedback. [Hattie, 1992] According to Robert Marzano’s Classroom Instruction that Works -providing feedback to students can be the single most important change you make in your classroom.  Research shows that: Feedback [...]

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Robin Young on February 5th, 2010

With the upgrade on campus from Office XP to Office 07 there was a need to rewrite the directions on embedding YouTube into PowerPoint. Embedding a video allows for the presenter to stay within the PowerPoint environment and to filter out the ads and info that may surround the video on the internet. Here is a powerpoint [...]

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Robin Young on February 2nd, 2010

The Winter Olympics are 10 days away.  Soon the TV airwaves will be full ofwinter sports, some of which we only get to see every 4 years.  So how can you incorporate this historic event into your classroom?  I’ve gone through several websites (listed at the bottom of this post) and grouped some ideas into [...]

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