MyClassroomIdeas.com is a free resource for teachers to share their classroom decorating and bulletin board ideas with each other. This is the fist site that gives teachers the ability to get their ideas directly from a community of teachers, rather than relying on blogs written by one author. MyClassroomIdeas.com currently offers visitors the ability to […]

The next generation of citizens will need more than just civics courses. They are going to be netizens, as well. Their education should integrate core lessons with the technology they already use in their every day lives, said Jamie Forshey, an instructional technology coach and teacher in Pennsylvania.“You can’t teach them 21st century skills without […]

Awareness… Compassion… Activism… These are a few of the concepts students at Bellwood-Antis High School learned about during their recent participation in the One Million Bones Challenge—a project created to promote awareness of genocide and other humanitarian crises that exist in our world, this very day. Following an assembly program to learn about the One Million […]

You want me to join what? Yep, you read that title correctly—the #edugood 365 Photo Project. That’s right! Here’s your chance to spend the next year documenting and sharing all of the positive happenings in your classroom—and life—through the lens of your camera! And why would I want to do that, you ask? Well, for […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below for some of the latest and greatest “Cool Tools” and/or web resources that can be integrated into your classroom! » ProProfs Brain Games A site containing a variety of puzzles—logic, word searches, crosswords, sudoku and many more! Users can also create […]

Turn your students into gangsters—the educational kind, that is—with Graffiti Creator, a nifty web tool that allows users to design an authentic looking graffiti-style name or logo within a matter of minutes. Yo—that’s right! After selecting one of ten graffiti fonts, the customization is limitless—bubbles, stripes, shadows, outlines and highlights—all of which enhance the logotype […]

So you think you know Google?  Well, think again! Because it’s not just the most popular search engine on the planet—as if that’s not enough! But it also provides users who have an account with a wide array of products and services including—but not limited to—YouTube, calendars, documents, blogging tools and a photo editor that’s […]

Writing Prompts is a Tumblr blog packed full of image-based prompts that can be incorporated into daily and/or creative writing activities. To date, there are 300+ thought provoking ideas in a variety of categories available to utilize with your students with additional prompts posted regularly. Check out a few Writing Prompts examples shown below: Some prompts are […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below for some of the latest and greatest “Cool Tools” and/or web resources that can be integrated into your classroom! » QR voice A QR code generator in which users can type a 100 character message to accompany the code—one that is […]

Looking for a way to add some style to your next digital or print project? Then check out Spell with Flickr—a nifty web tool that generates a logo based on images of letters and numbers from flickr picture galleries. Here’s how it works: Visit the Spell with Flickr web site, enter a phrase and within […]