Common Core Vocabulary Writing

Moving Beyond the Personal Narrative

Narrative writing.  What is it?  From the perspective of an elementary school teacher, it’s the first genre of writing you teach of the school year.  And it’s always the personal narrative.  Students brainstorm and write about their trips to Disneyland, the beach, or playing video games for hours on end.  While students should write about …

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Common Core Digital Storytelling Educational Policy Educational Technology Video in the Classroom Workshops Upcoming

Higher Level Technology Use

For my upcoming presentation, “Digital CPR:  Bring Your Reading Series to Life with Technology” for LAUSD’s Best Practices Conference on March 19th, I created this illustration which I will use to talk about higher level technology use. I will talk about incorporating multimedia in the classroom as something all teachers should be doing but I …

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