How the Internet Can Help Kids Build Their Vocabulary
By Jim Moulton
9/11/09
I like words. I do a lot of writing and public speaking, so this makes sense. Do you like words? Do you wish your students liked words more? I thought it might be helpful to share some of my favorite word-centric, Web-based resources, and see what other folks can share back.
It's Time to Get Serious About Creativity in the Classroom
By Jim Moulton
8/21/09I always enjoy having art teachers in the groups of educators I work with. Their presence is good for me, and good for the group. They tend to be more conceptual in their thinking.
How to Become More Tech Savvy This Summer
By Jim Moulton
7/10/09As I've mentioned before, I think one of the big problems with making best use of technology in the classroom is the richness of the possibilities. They can be overwhelming, as I described in an earlier Edutopia.org post.
Learners Thrive with a Public Audience
By Jim Moulton
6/20/09I drove over to Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, this morning. I had been invited to see a set of culminating presentations of collaborative research projects by college students and alternative-education students from a local middle school.
The Art of Networking on Campus
By Jim Moulton
5/20/09In my travels for work and pleasure, I have hunted agates in Scotland, searched for flints, arrowheads, and fossils in Wyoming, Texas, and Oregon, and brought pieces of obsidian home from Japan. Yes, I am an avid rock collector. But this posting is really about people and schools, not rocks.
Use Skype with Students
By Jim Moulton
4/22/09I am traveling through India right now and doing workshops in private schools on technology-rich project learning. India has proven to be simply an amazing experience, and I will be sending along some other posts about what I am seeing here, but I thought I would start on the communication front.
Publishing Student Writing -- and Your Own
By Jim Moulton
3/26/09When I was a classroom teacher, my kids published a lot of books. We carefully finished our pages and then used the plastic spiral binder in the teachers' room to bind the pages into book form.
Teachers Need to Share Their Stories
By Jim Moulton
2/27/09I am going to connect a couple of dots here in thinking about personality and teaching. Stay with me -- and please let me know what you think.
Web 2.0 Tools, and Keeping Up with the Internet's Evolution
By Jim Moulton
2/12/09This morning, I got an email -- from a wonderful fourth-grade teacher in Vermont -- that passed along a recommendation about a Web site called Go2Web20.net. So I went poking around and found that I had written a post about Go2Web20.net a year ago. But something has changed.
Technology Integration Begins at Home
By Jim Moulton
1/29/09A lot of times, I find myself working just as hard, or harder, to inspire folks as I do to inform them. While I am consistently helping all the teachers I work with to increase their purposeful use of technology in the classroom, I find that too often I am encouraging veteran teachers to come over the threshold and begin using it.
