Ruth’s Ruckus2

I am just so excited!!  For the better part of two years I have been talking to my teachers about using the DE Streaming teacher tools.  I have explained - they are easy to set up, students will really be engaged, I promise you’ll like it – to no avail…until this week!
KUDOS to Mrs. Mitchell, Ms. [...]

I am forever getting great stuff from folks in my PLN.  Two websites that I was introduced to recently are interesting:  This first one – Kidblog looks promising and will need to be sanctioned by OITMS before anyone uses it.  The premise is the same as classblogmeister – simple safe blogging for students. Instructional blogging [...]

I know many of you think about Orchard for remediation – and it’s a great tool for that.  But Orchard is also a wonderful tool to use for whole group direct instruction.  It talks to the kids and has games as well as “powerpoint” type of presentations to use for both language arts and math.
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The Electric Company is back and it’s better than ever…I just found out that WHRO will be airing the Electric Company at 5:00pm weekdays.  The show is perfect for 2nd grade and struggling third grade readers.  Far from the classic that I watched when I was a kid, the updated show has all the bells and [...]

Ok…so my PLN has a lot of great folks and they always share great stuff.  Today NedraI shared a site called BookWink.  It’s great!  Video booktalks on a variety of subjects.  I’m thinking of a host of uses for it in language arts and Library classes.  Take a look for yourself and see, and if I’ve [...]

You know, I get on a lot of mailing lists…I’m not sure if I signed up for all of them, but this one seems to be a good one.  I just got an email from Shell Education about a new podcast that they have released.  It’s on teaching idoms…so I went to the site and [...]

Today was a great day!!  I went to Ms. Brockman’s class to teach reading.  Two weeks ago (maybe three) Ms. Brockman emailed me asking if I would do a reading lesson for her.  She didn’t have the topic yet, but wanted to make sure that she got a spot in my schedule.  (I am only at [...]