WebQuests are great interactive tools that motivate students to learn!  WebQuests are so powerful because they are student-centered in nature. Students enjoy delving deeper into a topic through WebQuests because they are not teacher-directed. Rather, students are given a purpose and task to encourage them on their WebQuest journey.  During WebQuests teachers facilitate the learning [...]

The purpose of this chat was to discuss how the arts can improve upon literacy instruction within the classroom.  The discussion was led by BJ Berquist.  (She actually led my Tips and Tricks session as well.)  In addition to myself, two other teachers joined the discussion.  One was a technology teacher in an elementary school and [...]

This week I worked on creating an interactive PowerPoint for my fourth grade students.  I was very nervous about completing this assignment, because I have never made a PowerPoint before.  I was especially nervous about making the PowerPoint interactive.  However, this proved to be a very worthwhile assignment, because it forced me to learn how [...]