As of today, we are making many of our previously ‘Pro’ only features 100% free for all! This change will, without a doubt, make Edublogs the best free web publishing tool for students and teachers on the web. We went through and have made many of our more popular features free, including: Student management – […]

Blogging provides numerous benefits, but we all have reasons why we don't always blog as much as we want. Here's what you've told us in your blogging stories about blogging challenges, benefits, goals, and tips for better blogging.

There are a variety of digital storytelling tools available on the web that can be embedded into a WordPress website. Below I will discuss my top five digital storytelling tools and how they help create more interactive experiences for readers.

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In this post I'm going to look at how students can benefit from blogging, with reference to my own experience supporting a group of Year 6 kids (10 and 11 year olds) to create their own blogs. And I'll show you just how easy it is to get your students ...

Wouldn't it be great if there was a Science site where younger students could get help with their questions? The good news is there is a site, The Science Master, and it's been set up on Edublogs to provide a safe learning environment for students.

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I recently sat down with Terry Heick from TeachThought.com to chat about a whole host of topics, including global warming, data privacy, ePortfolios, and blogging with students.

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Another school year is beginning but it won’t be business as usual! Big changes are here in Washington state:  New Standards: The biggest change this year is the complete rollout of the Common Core State Standards. Addressing more than just content, these new standards also include Standards for Mathematical Practice which describe processes and proficiencies teachers […]

I have spent three days at the Washington Educational Research Association (WERA) Conference in Seattle, WA, learning about Common Core, assessment and teaching. My favorite session was by Tracy Davis, Using Google Tools to Prepare Students for Online Testing. I got several great ideas that I look forward to trying out! You can find more […]

Living here in Hawaii this past year has been a wonderful experience. I am grateful for the opportunity to work with the staff and students at Maryknoll School;  teaching in a one-to-one laptop school was an awesome experience!             My husband is retiring from the US Navy and our family […]

I have spent the past two days at Kukulu Kaiaulu 2013 Technology Conference listening to wonderful minds and getting inspired. What a great way to end the school year! Keynote speakers: Nirvan Mullick, creator of Caine’s Arcade. If you have never seen this, you really should because it is completely amazing. Laura Zander, owner of […]

For their final project, students in my trigonometry class were asked to create a video that demonstrates concepts they learned this trimester. Students were given handouts of the project guidelines and scoring rubric. I have used this project several times through the years with my Precalculus and AP Calculus students. Past projects have included “Charlie’s […]

Student mathcasts created by my trigonometry class this trimester and teacher-created mathcasts can be viewed on my YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/oflynnp1. A few highlights: Teacher-created mathcast of a live lesson, showing how we use Socrative in the classroom at Maryknoll High School. Other mathcasts created at Maryknoll High School by both me and my students. […]

Students in my trigonometry class used Camtasia Studio to create mathcasts of their work. Using Law of Cosines by Kawai: http://youtu.be/5f2nHJE2G20  Right Triangle Problems: http://moodle.maryknollschool.org/file.php/319/Ch1_intro_to_trig/camtasia/practicequiz_righttriangles/practicequiz_righttriangles.html  The first is a movie we uploaded to YouTube. The second is a set of 6 movies we produced with a table of contents using Camtasia and uploaded to our course Moodle. […]

I have been using Socrative this year and love it, but I did wish I had the ability to add pictures/graphs to questions. And now, I can! In the latest update,  Socrative introduced two important features to it’s popular web-based (and free!) student response system software: Teacher can now add images to questions. Socrative now has the […]

If you happen to be in Hawaii on June 5 — 7 or June 24 – 26 and have some time in your schedule, explore the potential of TI-Nspire technology for implementing the Common Core State Mathematics Content and the Mathematical Practices for Mathematics.  You will learn ways for using TI-Npsire handhelds, TI-Nspire Teacher Software, Nspire […]

Strawpoll is an easy-to-use polling software that allows your to quickly gather information from your students.  Just enter your question and answer choices, decide whether you want the question to be single-answer or multi-select, and then create! The URL for your new poll will be displayed and ready for use. To view the results of […]

I will be presenting this fall at the 2013 Schools of the Future (SOTF) Conference at the Honolulu Convention Center. In my session on October 18th, participants will learn how to use free interactive technologies to assess students during the learning process, facilitate classroom discussion, and increase student collaboration. This session will emphasize formative assessment […]

I always seem to be looking for new, better, easier-to-use organization tools beacuse let’s face it, teachers have a lot of planning to do and projects to manage. On a typical day, I have 45 students (which I know is incredibly low by secondary standards), seniors to mentor for their final exhibition, tasks for the ...