Today I conducted a half-day workshop on Wikis in the Classroom. Although wikis have been used in education for years, their rapid evolution continually affords new integration opportunities for beginning users and veterans alike: Wikis in the K12 Classroom View more presentations from Patrick Woessner. Throughout the course of the morning, our small, diverse, and [...]

Yesterday MICDS teachers Mike Fitzgerald (5th grade geography) and Jeff Horwitz (2nd grade homeroom) were honored to be included among this year’s 10  ePals Teacher Ambassadors.  As noted on the ePals website: We invited teachers to show us how ePals has opened the world for their students. Applicants each submitted projects that they had successfully [...]

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a staple of our 8th grade English curriculum. In an effort to breathe new life into teaching this classic of modern American literature, Faculty Fellow Angela Hagans guided students (and faculty) through the process of using Prezi to demonstrate what they had learned about a [...]