Blog Juice for Educational Technology

Creating budgets, maintaining classroom bank accounts, and other activities that help students understand the concept of financial management are often found in classrooms from 2nd grade up to seniors in high school. I’ve taught enough students how to balance checking accounts, plan out spending sprees, and create budgets that I’ve taken to having them create […]

I noticed that my last few posts have been focused almost entirely on Science, so I thought it was time to write about processing and mapping skills that work across disciplines. I have to thank Kevin Clark, an instructional technologist who works for our local REMC, for blogging about a fantastic new tool for allowing […]

I have my one of my students to thank for this, as I had no idea that Microsoft Publisher included plans for printing, folding, and customizing paper airplanes. We’ve been studying friction and it’s various forms in the classroom (sliding, rolling, and fluid), and I wanted to give them a practical example of fluid friction […]

In my infinite brilliance naivity, I had my students chart the current weather conditions at a certain time each day since we got back from Spring Break, thinking I could get them engaged by tracking a multitude of weather data they hadn’t been exposed to before. Everday at a given time they were to go […]

I had a chance to talk with a number of educators last week at MACUL about a project I was doing with my students using the before-mentioned Stellarium software. Since my students are almost finished I thought I’d share the project concept with everyone as you may be wondering what to do once you’ve downloaded […]

Against my wife’s better judgment, I’m at school today despite spending most of Sunday on the couch dealing with a flu-like fatigue. There was too much to take care of today in class today, so I took some Vicks Dayquil and am powering through this morning.
Not wanting to dwell on my personal health, I though […]

While reading Barbara’s blog, I found this terrific tutorial for using Excel or OpenOffice to create a word search from scratch. By following Barbara’s directions (which were very simple and thorough) I managed to create my own word search quickly and easily. If you have a few minutes click on over to Plugged In HomeSchool […]

A few months back I talked about how useful the Comic Creator was on the Read, Write, Think website. While it allows for quick and easy publication of creative cartoons using pre-drawn characters and backgrounds, it doesn’t include a drawing tool to allow the user to make their own unique creations, nor does it have […]