Robin Young on April 6th, 2010

I started to title this blog post – A New Way to Brainstorm – but then I realized that Wall Wisher offers so much more than that. Wallwisher is a free internet application that allows you to build a wall that then you or you and others can post notes on.   To build a [...]

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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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Robin Young on January 25th, 2010

I’ve found a few more resources/lessons that use the Super Bowl or football as the jumping point for the lessons and wanted to pass them on: Education World  - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson096.shtml – lessons for art, social studies, math and science based on football and the SuperBowl Lesson Planet – http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?media=lesson&keywords=football&commit=Search&grade=All+Grades&rating=3&gclid=CIGYpP73tZ8CFQUhDQodKC2r4Q  - Football lesson plans Football Math [...]

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Robin Young on January 21st, 2010

It’s almost Super Bowl time! Appointment television at it’s best with the thrill of the game and the fun of the commercials!   Why not use this important social event in American culture to pull students into learning?  What has caught my attention the most right now is the use of commercials in the classroom.  Several websites [...]

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Robin Young on April 7th, 2009

Google Earth is a great resource for engaging students in learning by using real world places and great visuals.  This is the first in a series of tutorial videos in using Google Earth in the classroom. The ruler tool allows teachers/students to measure distances of real world objects without leaving their classroom.  You can measure [...]

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Robin Young on March 11th, 2009

Back in the fall I spent the morning with the 7th grade math teachers on campus.  The focus of our training was how to use webcams in the math classrooms.  Mainly with the idea that a webcam costs under $100 and a document camera costs well over $700.  Our tech ed teacher built stands for [...]

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Robin Young on March 10th, 2009

I watch the news and they refer to their blogs and read reader’s comments on the air.  I listen to the radio and hear about the blogs available there and what listeners have to say about the goings on with the music.  The Entertainment industry is full of blogs, I was tracking down past American [...]

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Robin Young on November 3rd, 2008

Recently I heard about people using webcams as document cameras.  We decided to give it a shot on campus in the 7th grade math classrooms. We purchased the Logitech 9000 webcam and the Tech Ed teacher is building a stand for the camera so it can be stationary wherever the teacher wants to place it [...]

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Robin Young on May 7th, 2008

Math Web Sites: Math Tips - They have taken the most missed TAKS questions from last year’s 8th grade test and created teaching videos to show how to work those type of problems. Decatur Intermediate Math Videos - Decatur teachers took the 5th and 6th grade released math TAKS and posted short videos on how to complete [...]

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Robin Young on April 17th, 2008

Google is a powerful search engine and can do so much more than just return websites that have the info you are looking for.  I thought I would find a few of those tricks and pass them along.  8 Google Search Tricks: 1. Specialized Information Searches: Definitions: You can get a word defined in by using [...]

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