The Gift of Reading is an ad for the the Kobo Reader, but it’s still a nice video. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning About Mother’s Day:

Are you looking for center ideas that are engaging and meaningful?!  How about ones that take little to no money and not much time to put together?! Here's a video I taped yesterday about a super simple reading center idea I started a few years ago when I was still teaching first grade! Hopefully your kids will love these as ...

The PBS News Hour had an interview with author Walter Dean Myers today, and he’s one of my students’ favorite authors (I’ve embedded the video below, but you can see both the video and read the transcript here). That got … Continue reading →

Source: shareasimage.com via Larry on Pinterest   First, congratulations to LeBron James on his first NBA Championship. Second, thanks to LeBron for spending so much reading and making it so public. Here’s a video on why and what he’s reading, … Continue reading →

I’ve previously posted about the recent study that demonstrated baboons could distinguish between genuine English words and fake ones (see Does Intensive Phonics Instruction Treat Students Like Baboons?). Here is a short and very interesting video describing how scientists did … Continue reading →

Albatros bookmarks from Oscar Lhermitte on Vimeo.

In my book, Helping Students Motivate Themselves, I have a very extensive lesson plan on Bloom’s Taxonomy (it’s one of my favorites and, but the way, I’ll be sharing it at Eye On Education’s online conference in March). The lesson … Continue reading →

“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” won the Oscar for Best Animated Short last night. It’s described as taking: …place in a world where books are living creatures. It offers sentimental tale about the power of books and … Continue reading →

So you make books for your kids?  If not you should! There are lots of different books you can find on the web, but most are very complex and take a lot of time!  As a teacher, I don't have the time to cut the middle of this paper and slice this page or fold this one into that one!  I need quick and simple! So here's a little video I made for 3 ...

Following on from the recent blog challenge on raising awareness of disability access issues, I came across the Leonard Cheshire Disability campaign whilst watching Shaun the Sheep dvds with my daughter. The campaign is called “Creature Discomforts” and has very similar aims to the blog challenge – namely to get people to think about the way ...