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What lesson-planning tools do you use?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kate Miller Feb 12. 8 Replies 0 Likes
I am interested in the efficient use of teacher time, and this has led me to take a critical look at lesson-planning tools. I am interested to hear about the tools teachers use in creating their…Continue
Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently
Started this discussion. Last reply by Eric Jan 31. 6 Replies 0 Likes
I recently taught an Introduction to Programming class, and when I was writing up report cards I was surprised to see how well students had done as a whole. One of the most interesting aspects of…Continue
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Information on Microsoft Licenses?
Started Oct 20, 2009 0 Replies 0 Likes
Hello everyone,I am a teacher on my district's technology committee. It looked for a while like our district might make the move to OpenOffice, but that possibility seems to have just disappeared…Continue
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Stacey Bell replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"I just recently stumbled upon mindmeiter.com. It is an interactive mind mapping site. One option on this sight is lesson planning, it is done more in a web that can be shared an edited if you wanted to include your team. It is not…"
Maria Smith replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"I generally use Microsoft Word. Collaboratively, my KTeam post it on Google Docs and add things to our plans. We do team plans and individual small group lesson plans. I recently used planboard."
John Lee replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"I use http://www.planboardapp.com. It is online based and works for me so far.
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Eric replied to Daniel Rezac's discussion Kid Friendly Internet Research?""If at some point we need revenues"
You are in a startup incubator. You are going to need revenues, because your investors are going to want to see a financial return on their investment.
That said, I like what I see from InstaGrok…"
Eric replied to Daniel Rezac's discussion Kid Friendly Internet Research?"Hi Mark,
I teach high school, and I've always had the attitude that rather than give students an easier search engine to use, we are better off teaching them how to use google well. This means understanding how to search using quotes,…"
Eric replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"Thank you for the responses, Wesley and Kate. I use Word and OpenOffice as well, because I've never found anything I liked well enough to use consistently.
I think I am just getting to the point in my teaching career that I wish my plans…"
Kate Mason replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"Hi Eric. I also use a template I made on Microsoft Word. It works well, my team also uses it. We can email each other our plans to see if there's anything we want to borrow or share. It also makes it easy to save and…"
Wesley Emlet replied to Eric's discussion What lesson-planning tools do you use?"I simply use a template I got off of Microsoft. They have tons of free templates that you can download and then manipulate so it works for you. I have seen web apps and other tools but for me the ease of using Microsoft Word to plan is…"
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I am interested in the efficient use of teacher time, and this has led me to take a critical look at lesson-planning tools. I am interested to hear about the tools teachers use in creating their lesson plans. Do you create your lesson plans using:A word processor such as Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, or OpenOffice?An online lesson-planning tool such as Standards Toolbox?A desktop lesson planning application?Something else?Also, what are your planning tools unable to do, that you wish they…See More
Eric replied to Eric's discussion Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently"It seems to be true of young people and adults, that some people "get" programming and some don't. I think it's like chess. You can teach anyone chess strategies and tactics, and they will improve. But if you…"
Eric replied to Eric's discussion Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently"Hi John,
I have seen the issue of a student's interest in programming becoming a detriment to their other class work. I think I was the same way with science when I was in high school. I think it's a delicate balancing…"
John Garrett replied to Eric's discussion Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently"I teach programming through the lego NXT robotics at my middle school and you are right they do feel different once they are done. My best quote for my class was once a kid figured out that using the math to write is code worked better than trial…"
Bjorn Holdt replied to Eric's discussion Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently"Hi there
I also taught programming for the last 5 years. You are right, the students do feel that they have somehow conquered something. What seemed to work really well is letting them create their own simple games. I have found greenfoot and alice…"
Eric replied to Eric's discussion Teaching Programming - It makes students carry themselves differently"Thanks for the interesting response. I like your countdown example, I think I will share that with students. I've been making loops interesting by telling students they're going to write a program that will display the numbers…"
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