Wixie (Twitter @Tech4Learning) is an online publishing platform designed for elementary schools. It enables students to work on projects at school or at home, and then privately publish their work to share with their class and families. Teachers build project frameworks using existing templates or from scratch, assign it to the class, and then the students […]
Basecamp for Teachers App
Basecamp (Twitter @basecamp) is an online project management tool that launched in 2004. The app helps collaborative groups and individuals organize their process, communicate, and keep projects on schedule. This brief video gives you a quick introduction to the app, which runs on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. As explained in the video, the app has six […]
Virginia Studies Online Resources
As I continue my work in grad school, I am preparing for my capstone project. The project involves technology integration and blended learning in 4th grade Virginia Studies, one of my favorite subject areas. This blog post serves as my page for free online resources that can be used in teaching, research, and planning lessons […]
Great Falls and the C & O Canal
On this gorgeous autumn morning, my husband and I went outdoors to enjoy Veteran’s Day. We drove to the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park in Maryland and hiked out to photograph Great Falls from Olmsted Island. The Potomac River narrows at this point on its way towards DC, and it’s a popular spot […]
Sharing Photos for Schools
Images Tell Stories For many reasons, photography and visual storytelling is one of my passions. I started playing with inexpensive cameras when I was in college, and become slightly obsessed with recording my adventures when I worked abroad for eight years. During my teaching years in Micronesia, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia, I traveled in the […]
First Flight (Family Road Trip 2016)
Wings for All One of our first concerns about planning our trip was the airplanes and airports. Our boys had never flown or even been in an airport, and we knew that preparing them for their first flight would require dedicated time and effort. After some research, I learned about the Wings for Autism/Wings for […]
