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 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 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 October 9th, 2008

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 [...]

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Robin Young on March 24th, 2008

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 [...]

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Robin Young on March 19th, 2008

In my recent blog readings, I have come across the prevailing thought that the importance of blogging is not just to make your voice heard, but it is the ongoing conversation that happens after a blog/piece of writing has put out there and others comment back to extend the conversation.  It is not just the [...]

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