Introduction Since creating my first iPhone/iPad app, Reading Remedies, the question I’ve been asked most frequently by friends, family, blog-readers, and strangers on the street has been, “How do you create an iPhone app?” I am no expert on the subject but I’m happy to provide information on my experience and how I did it. …
Category: Educational Technology
Reading Remedies for iPhone and iPad
This week I released my first iPhone/iPad app, Reading Remedies, which helps to diagnose reading difficulties and support beginning readers. I hope it will be of use to teachers and especially parents. The app gives assessments in each of six reading areas (rhyming, blending, segmenting, sight words, fluency, and word attack) and then provides follow-up …
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 …
Close the Computer Lab
Let me preface this by saying: 1) In a perfect world every school would have both a computer lab and computers in their classrooms. 2) If you have an innovative teacher like Alice Mercer in your computer lab I would surely keep it open. But if you have a school with a computer lab like this, …
Increase Reading Fluency with Fluency Timer
I’m excited to announce that I’ve developed and released my very first software application, Fluency Timer, available now in the new Mac App Store or via my own site at: http://www.fluencytimer.net. Fluency Timer is both a timer and a recorder that records students’ one minute fluency readings. Research has shown that having students listen to …
3 Ways to Download Movies from Youtube
I decided to update my list of tools for downloading youtube movies because I’ve discovered some new favorite tools and others no longer work. 1. The low-tech way. Load the movie, close the laptop (but not the window) and bring the computer to school. If you’re not comfortable with technology, this is the way for …
Six Ways Teachers Can Improve Education This Year
This post is about six things teachers can do in their own schools and classrooms to improve the entire field of education in the 2010-2011 school year. 1. Say hello at the door. I used to think this was silly until I read that the few words exchanged at the door may be a students’ …
Video in the Classroom Mini-Carnival #5
Here are a few new examples of classroom videomaking sites worth checking out from around the web. Elementary Mr. Alonso’s 4th grade classroom. I particularly enjoyed, The Secret to the CSTs. Mrs. McKillop’s 4th grade classroom in Elk Grove. Here is their award-winning movie, The Power of One. Middle School Mr. Mayo’s Middle School Films. …
The Low Tech Way to Show Youtube Movies in School
By request, I’m posting the steps to showing youtube movies in class the “low tech” way. For those with the technological know-how, I prefer using the firefox plugin “Download Helper” or a site like zamzar.com, however, this is for teachers with little tech know-how and a laptop. Of course, all of these methods are designed …
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