Are You a Curator or a Dumper?
…principles to those items. I wrote about this in a guest post for Laura Candler’s Teaching Resources (formerly, Corkboard Connections) a few years ago: Why No One Reads Your Classroom Newsletter. School or Teacher Websites: It seems that one company designed the basic template for all school and district websites around maybe 2004, and since then, far too many schools have never strayed from that. I’m not going to point fingers at any one school, but I think you know what I mean: The menu has hundreds of items, the page is broken up into dozens of little squares of…
Read More6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2018
…is a beautiful, flexible tool that allows students of any age or skill level to create, publish, and share online books. Creating books using this tool can be as simple or complex as you make it. Students who prefer more structure can choose a comic book layout and insert Google images straight from the app into locked panels. Those who want more flexibility can choose a completely blank page and upload their own artwork. Students can customize the font, add shapes and stickers, hyperlink the text to other online resources, and import audio and video files. When the book is…
Read MoreEpisode 237 Transcript
…and get those. So one more time before we go, just remind us. Like, one spot where people can go as, like, a hub to find you online. Where would be a great place for people to find you online. Cicely, where should they go? LEWIS: So I live heavily on Instagram now. I’m not really active on X anymore. Trying to protect my space. So Instagram @cicelythegreat. Humbly, I am @cicelythegreat. And, and I, my students say that Facebook is for old people, but I’m also on Facebook. And you can always find me at the hashtag #ReadWoke. And…
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