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Maintaining Student Work Portfolios with Google Drive

I distinctly remember being told to maintain student writing portfolios when I first started teaching. I did not like doing it. When I say student writing portfolio, I mean a few milk crates with hanging folders stuffed sporadically with student work. It was a clumsy process and I often put student work in the portfolios…

5 YouTube Video Channel Resources for Teachers

It used to be that videos in the classroom were seen as a potentially negative thing. Something teachers do to kill time when they do not have something planned. However, the rise of activities like flipped lessons and the large amount of relevant videos on sites like YouTube allow for many educational opportunities. There are…

Polleverywhere Lesson Idea

School started early for us this year. So, here we are two weeks in and a week in with students. We are off to a good start here, and my classes look like a great bunch. I look forward to working with them this year. I spend a lot of time throughout the year evaluating…

Digital Native Reevaluated

There is a common line of thinking that students have an inherent advantage to teachers when it comes to the use of technology (Prensky, 2010). Prensky (2010) coined the terms digital native and digital immigrant. The term digital native refers to those who grow up exposed to technology. Conversely, a digital immigrant has not grown…