For those looking to “gamify” your classroom, the first thing I would recommend is to think about the games that you or your kids love.  These might be casual mobile games like Words with Friends, Angry Birds, or Candy Crush.  They might be board games like Monopoly, Pictionary, or Candyland.  They might be video games […]

For this set of posts, I am sharing how I plan to gamify my classroom this school year. You may or may not have heard of the term gamification but I can tell you that it is a philosophy that is very popular in education (and business) right now. It might be said, that with

Well, its been a long time, dear blog.  I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you.  Thanks to the Farley, at Oh Boy 4th Grade for shaking me out of my slump.     Listening: to the sounds of silence.  That’s right.  Everyone in my house is on the post-New Years, sleep in until 11 schedule.  Loving: college

 I have had a Twitter account for a pretty long time.  I first set up an account for myself in early 2011 when Twitter was being described in the media as the “next big thing” in tech.  But at that point, I really didn’t see anything useful about it.  As a result, for several years

I am a little embarrassed to admit that I have been obsessively checking my TpT followers over the past week.   The reason that I have been checking this daily is because my TpT followers have been slowly creeping up toward the magical number of 200.   Honestly, I think my family has had enough of me

Thanks to the wonderful teachers at Teaching Trio for hosting the Tech Thursday Link up.  Have you ever tried to put a slideshow together and dropped on images with backgrounds like this?   I would usually resort to using a background color that matched the picture background.  Just recently, I discovered a better way to

  Happy summer, everyone! I’m linking up with Tara and the other wonderfully creative teachers at 4th Grade Frolics for this Monday Made It.   The Made It that I am probably most proud of is our teacher staff videos we have done for the past 3 years.  Each year we end the school year

I’m linking up with one of my favorite blogs, Teaching Trio for this week’s post.  Its been a while, but I’m hoping to get back to blogging over my summer break. Whitehouse Tech Club Members  Photo credit:Karen Gerhardinger The Mirror This year I had a group of students that inspired me to do something that

What’s up, peeps?  see what I did there? I am currently enjoying my first day at home for Spring Break in not so tropical northwest Ohio.  I’ve been enviously viewing many of my friends’ social media pictures with beach and pool scenes in the background.   #Jealousy We usually travel somewhere warm as well, but this

Top of the morning, friends!  Well somehow I missed the link up before it closed, but I wrote the post so I’m doing it anyway for all of my loyal (4) followers! Spring has almost sprung here in NW Ohio as we are expected to crack 60º this week.  Hooray! I’m here to share a