Teachers struggle with getting non-writers writing and non-readers reading. But why should those students practice a skill they struggle with? Why will another book and another essay help when so far it has not made a difference? We know that more practice helps, and that you can’t improve unless you work at it, but sometimes [...]
I was reading a friend’s blog recently, explaining how to make good use of your summer. One of the ideas was to explore projects with other schools in other areas. That started me thinking – telecollaboration has been around for a while, but not until recently has it been made so easy. Connecting with other [...]
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This is the first installment in what I hope to be a weekly series of cool websites to check out. I stumbled across this link today and I am totally hooked as to what it could do for teachers! http://drop.io - Want a way for students to turn in files to you online? Maybe a place where [...]
Welcome to the new home of Robin’s Technology Tips. I am still playing with the settings of WordPress and learning about themes, plugins, etc, so expect to see some changes along the way. One thing I have found over the last week is that web and blog hosting is doable, it just take a bit [...]