My Thoughts on Social Media - How I stay 'in the know' -  I was excited to wake up the other day and see that my Twitter video had been posted by my buddy, Jeff, on Edudemic.  This made my day!  If you've searched any topic relating to education and technology, I'm sure you've landed on his amazing site.  I've been fortunate ...

I’m at the airport, waiting for my flight to Charlotte. I’ve a long layover (about 3 hours), so I thought I’d start to put down my impressions. LOVED San Antonio – friendly city, great people. Gotta give a shout-out to Gabriel, our cab driver (he phoned us at 3:15 am to make sure we woke [...]

A Safe, Refined Search Engine for Education The theme of 'organization' seems to be popular in my posts lately.  I find myself gravitating towards resources that are easy to use.  With so many available options, I don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of every resource.   After seeing someone share Gooru on ...

Online Support for Pre-K - 8th   Plus Algebra & Geometry - click here to try IXL -  I've been using IXL for the past several months with my own two children, Jacob (4) and Riley (8).  As a parent, I love how organized the site is to use.  I do not have time to teach myself how to navigate a site prior to signing up.  ...

Create a Fake Screenshot of Text Dialogue between Characters I ran across this fun web tool last night on Pinterest.  I linked the resource back to Tammy's site where she shares wonderful technology resources for the classroom.  You can click here to see more examples of using this fake texting feature in your classroom from ...

Coding is Cool! A parent stopped me during a recent social at our school to tell me how excited her son was to program an app.  While we aren't programming apps in class, I'd sure like to learn how!  A friend of mine and I have been discussing the idea about creating a Coding Club at our school.  We will not start out on ...

Greetings! I’m Kate Peila and I blog about technology integration for student engagement and teacher sanity over on my blog, Purely Paperless. I have been a long-time reader and lurker over here at Kleinspiration. Erin always has amazing ideas and resources for classroom teachers. I am thrilled and honored to be sharing with you ...

Search for Apps easily with Google I enjoy searching for new apps to play around with and use with my two children and my students.  Of course, the iPad is far more beneficial than just simply playing with apps.  However, just like with reading, sometimes it's fun to just indulge.   Recently, I saw on a great iPad blog ...

This links to an interesting idea – that the Internet is essentially acting as an external hard drive – and, it may be getting closer to INTERNAL than you think. For much information, it is less important that we know a factoid, than know how to find a fact. Even more important is what we [...]

I was talking to someone at school this week, and we were comparing notes about teaching in our later years.  She has been at this school, and in the same system, for some time.  I, on the other hand, spent the first 15 years in the same system, then bounced around, in one state or [...]