All you need is love… And a copy of my Valentine’s Day Magnetic Poetry activity! So, here it is: A Google Slides activity containing 60+ words and phrases that can be manipulated into a fun-filled holiday poem, story, etc. As with my other creations, the word boxes are actually images and cannot be edited; however, they […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below for some super cool resources for the English/Language Art classroom—and there’s one for the GIF gurus too! » Write About This Kick-start all sorts of writing activities with this platform that provides students with a variety of visual prompts. Students can […]

Looking for some fun activities to celebrate Halloween in your classroom? Then look no further! Listed below is an updated version of some really spook-tacular educational Halloween resources that are sure to creep out your students—in a good way, of course! Whether it’s writing prompts, science experiments, Halloween candy math, Edgar Allan Poe videos or haunted […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below for some really neat interactive resources for engaging students with classroom content. » Writing Sparks An interactive creative writing site that can be used to stimulate ideas for opinion pieces, news articles stories or poems. Includes a teacher section that can […]

Need a super cool activity to get your students back into the groove of a new school year? If so, then I’ve got the perfect edtech resource for you and your peeps—a brand-new version of magnetic poetry, a Google Slides activity containing almost 100 words, or “magnets”, that can be creatively manipulated into a poem, story, […]

Simple… Free… Effective… Three reasons why we’re bringing back a web tool from the edtech archives. And it goes something like this… Fodey is a neat Web 2.0 tool that allows users to generate their own authentic newspaper clipping (that can double as a primary source document). Simply enter the name of a fictitious newspaper, […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below to access two super cool and very useful iOS apps that can be utilized to engage students in your classroom! » Write About Use visual prompts via this web tool to engage students in digital writing activities. Educators can upload images, […]

If you’re a regular visitor to my blog, you have probably noticed that I often share tools and resources that can help teachers spark student interest in writing. And that’s because I am a huge proponent of teaching visual literacy skills. Considering the mass media society we are immersed in, I feel it’s imperative that […]

What’s new this week in my Diigo bookmarks? Check out the links shown below for some of the latest and greatest web tools and resources that can be utilized to engage students in your classroom! » Grammar Bytes! An interactive web site that offers “grammar instruction with attitude.” Covering terms and usage through exercises, handouts, presentations […]

If you’re ready for the next edition of “Tech It Up Tuesday”, a weekly series in which I share an edtech tool, app, site or other resource that can be utilized in the educational setting, then you’re going to love this week’s resource! It’s one I snagged from the archives, but definitely one worth a look—especially if […]