Choosing the Perfect Tablet for Your Child Many parents are interested in picking out the perfect iPad or other tablet for their child for the holidays.  It can be difficult though to create the ideal ensemble when there are so many choices.  Even though this website is generally geared toward teachers,  I find that people often […]
Archives for 2014
Making a Big Change: Wrapping Education, Blogging and Coding All Into One Career
I always hate it when bloggers start a post with, “It’s been forever since I posted anything!” Because the truth is, I never notice, and wouldn’t have noticed if they hadn’t pointed it out to me. I could say the same thing here: “It’s been forever since I’ve published anything!” But number one, I […]
Five Ways to Use the Camera On Your Classroom iPad
Using the camera on your classroom iPads So the camera on the classroom iPad is turning out to be one of the most useful features for us! It’s so easy to use, and so easy to share pictures that we’re turning to it more and more often. Here are five ways that we or other […]
Learn to Code for Teachers Part 3, or How I Spent My Summer Vacation
So this is the third and final installment in my Learn to Code: For Teachers series.  See that stack of books in the picture above?  That’s my stack of books, and I read them all this summer.  I know, it’s not quite your average stack of of summer beach reads. It certainly isn’t what my summer reading […]
Best iPad Covers for Preschool and Kindergarten 2014
I am often asked which iPad cover I recommend for preschoolers.  I’ve written before about the Garmin covers we use in our classroom.  I’ve always appreciated how rugged they are, but I had to hack them to make them accessible for preschoolers. I bought a cover for my new phone this week. I’m in love with it and […]
Great Books for Beginning Programmers
I tend to try to write mostly about issues related to using technology in preschool and kindergarten classrooms. Â That is after all, the title of this website. Â When I started this site however, Â another of my goals was to improve my teaching and my learning by reflecting on my own work. Right now, that work […]
Five Ways to get better at Twitter {even when you don’t really like it!}
There. I’ve said it.  I really don’t like Twitter. I’ve tried to like it, but I don’t think it will ever be my favorite social media platform. On social media  I respond well to two things: pictures and the written word.  Twitter cuts me short in both areas: there are limited pictures and limited (like […]
