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 March 12th, 2009

Recently this web site was sent out through my PLN (personal learning network).  It was given as a suggestion for using technology to teach poetry. http://www.piclits.com/ Basically the website has photos and users can drag and drop words from their gallery onto the picture, or they can write free style.  Here is my first attempt: [...]

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Robin Young on March 3rd, 2009

I ran across http://www.befunky.com/ through my PLN (Personal Learning Network) and have been playing with the possibilities.   It requires no fees and no sign in or account to be created.  Of course the first place I start when playing with photos is my kids. The process of uploading pictures is very simple: Navigate to the [...]

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Robin Young on September 16th, 2008

The return of Web Wandering Wednesdays brings a focus on educational online videos.  Why use video in the classroom?  Video provides a common experience for everyone in a class.  It brings the subject to life and teachers report students understand the concepts better and retain the information longer.  Best practices suggests that short clips work [...]

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Robin Young on April 23rd, 2008

It is that time of the year, when we all need to take a mental break from time to time. Here are a list of sites that can help take your mind off of the testing season and onto something completely different. Digg.com http://digg.com/ - Digg.com is a collection of web sites/stories/postings that other people have found [...]

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Robin Young on April 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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