Making a poster, creating a model, or drawing a picture all help increase activity in the brain by having students take information in one form and transform it into another. Classroom Instruction that Works indicates that using nonlinguistic representations achieved a 27 percentile gain As a history teacher I also found those assignments more enjoyable to grade [...]
Continue reading about Glogster – Create an Interactive Poster
I ran across this and thought I would share. Using Wordle to create posters and original pieces had never occurred to me! She also links to other sites and ideas at the end of the presentation as well as includes how she created some of the slides. It is worth checking out! Wordle Ideas View more [...]
Inspiration is a wonderful tool to have students map out ideas, stories, events, etc. The downside is that Inspiration software is tied to a computer that it is loaded on and students cannot continue their work at home, and it is nearly impossible to work on it as a team. This week’s WWW are online [...]
Graphic Organizers are a long time tool of teachers. They are a great tool to be used in any subject area, fit a variety of learning styles and are well researched as to their effectiveness. Robert Marzano talks about the effectiveness of using Advance Organizers in his book, Classroom Instruction that Works and A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works. When the [...]