Kisu Kuroneko

Integrating Twitter in the Classroom

Here are two reasons to introduce Twitter into your classroom: 1) to examine twitter itself as part of a media literacy unit, and 2) to use twitter as a collaborative tool:1. Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing th... Read >

Seconday technology ideas - Meaningful ways to integrate technology into the curriculum

We're constantly trying to think of meaningful ways to integrate technology into our classroom. We're doing some of these things in one form or another (i.e. class blogs and student wikis), but we're always trying to improve our practice. Here are some wa... Read >

Dance Dance Revolution 2 as physical activity

This week, we brought in Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) into our classroom as a class reward for our Intermediate students as well as for our daily physical activity (DPA) requirements.We've been thinking about bringing in Dance Dance Revolution into our cl... Read >

SMART Response student response system - Are they worth it?

We're thinking about using classroom clickers to get our students "voting" in their responses to questions. SMART technologies has a SMART Response student response system that lets your students click in an answer..Basically, you post a question using yo... Read >

Class blogs - How Popular is Your Student Work?

How does your classroom blog rank in the blogosphere? As teachers, we're focused on helping our students to polish their work.Then, the harsh reality sets in. No one (aside from your students) is visiting your blog. (And, your students only read the posts... Read >

Build Self Esteem - Using a WordPress Blog to Send Positive Feedback

Building self-esteem in our students is something that teachers are often looking for ways to do. We already use blogs to publish student work online... so why not use blogs to build self esteem as well? Say Something... Nice is an example of how you can ... Read >

Computer Security and Edublogs - How to Secure Your Educational Blog

There are two situations where you might want to restrict access to your educational blog to just a few specific computers. First, you might want to restrict the entire blog so it can only be accessed by people using school computers.Second, you might wan... Read >

Edublogs - Where to Set Up Your Classroom Blog

Want to start an educational blog, but not sure how to do it? Well, you have several options, depending on how comfortable you are with technology. 1. Use your school website to publish your student work online. Generally speaking, this is not the most co... Read >

Educational Blogs - 6 Reasons to Get Your Class Blogging

More and more teachers are starting education blogs and blogging in the classroom. And, why not! There are a lot of reasons to consider blogging in the classroom.1. It gives your students an authentic purpose to write. The idea that their stories will be ... Read >