Monthly Archives: May 2008

Kevin, of Kevin’s Meandering Mind, blogged last week about how his students created their stop motion animation clay figures. He actually did some simple stop motion animation to show how the characters developed from simple to more complex. It had … Continue reading →

I just stumbled across a site by PBS TV. On their kids website, PBS Kids (okay, it’s not a really original name), they have a section called Word Girl. Word Girl is a young heroine fighting all sorts of nasty … Continue reading →

Arcademic Skill Builders is an awkwardly named site that has a host of simple little Flash games that try to teach academic concepts. The games are bright, colorful, and simple suggesting they’re aimed mainly at elementary kids. A casual look … Continue reading →

It seems I’m finding a few videos on things I could do to help my students learn. This is the second one that I wish I had the nerve to try. This little video shows a Spanish teacher (or two?) … Continue reading →

Gene Weingarten has a great piece on technology and what it does to our intelligence. I’ve often been suprised that so many of my students have trouble doing math in their heads, and I attribute it to reliance on calculators. … Continue reading →

I’ve been doing some blogging with a couple of classes and have struggled to get the kids to add capitals to sentences. Their sentence structure is also often horribly tortured. The kids, of course, can’t quite see why I’m so … Continue reading →

One Word is a funky little site that encourages stream of conciousness writing. What the site does is it prompts you with one word and you are supposed to write about that word for a minute. Then you hit submit … Continue reading →

This little about Dumptown takes you to dirty, yucky looking town where you get to institute recycling programs that help tidy the place up. The graphics are bright and colorful and there’s near constant animation as garbage trucks keep rolling … Continue reading →