I think one of the most powerful learning tools teachers can bring into the classroom is a poster of the updated Bloom’s Taxonomy. Considering how many print-ready posters are already online, if I were an administrator, I’d provide all my teachers with  full-blown, color-coded charts they could easily point to and use as a framework [...]

I love Glogster. I’ve done a number of workshops recently with teachers and students to introduce  this wonderful online poster application. This week, however, as I was viewing glogs created by a group of 6th graders, I noticed that most the snippets of information in their text boxes did not sound  like 6th grade parlance. [...]

What a great start to the New Year! I woke up to beautiful snow (something we get only a few times a year here in Placerville, CA) and my morning edition of The nwp Daily, full of thought provoking posts, Tweets, and links for stepping into 2011. The first link I clicked on took me [...]