I’ve been overwhelmed and impressed with 1:1 initial laptop program since I first heard about it.  Laptops allow students and teachers to integrate technology into the curriculum. They also enable students and teachers to access unlimited information to support learning. With audio grading, submission of assignments via GoogleDocs, storage of…[Read more]

This video showed the future classroom in 2007. But the future is already the present. The smart classroom is a technology enhanced classroom that fosters opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, networking, voice recognition, audio/visual…[Read more]

Yesterday I received an email from a new core teacher. She asked me: “I have a student in my Study Period class, and for the past couple of weeks he has been on a program called “MineSweep” (or something like that) which he says is for a project for your class. He said that you told [...]

What Does “Technology Integration” Mean? To my understanding, the integration of technology should serve to enhance learning objectives. That is only possible when embedding technology through the curriculum. Thus teachers can use technology to introduce, reinforce, extend, enrich, and assess student mastery of curricular targets. There are…[Read more]

The NETs (National Education Technology Standards) are from ISTE (International Society Technology in Education) and the AASL standards are from the American Association of School Librarians. I think our school has the standards like those of ISTE and AASL and even the combination of the two. However, how many teachers know them? How many teachers…[Read more]

  Guidelines ★Each student picks a country and reports the weather of that country by using MovieMaker software. ★Each student will record her/himself reading the weather condition. ★Each student designs her/his own MovieMaker movie; ★Each student adds her/his own images and music to enhance features of the weather report, and Royalty-free music…[Read more]

When I began to teach the topics based on the curriculum, I thought how I can make a breakthrough at some point— especially in connection with Chinese food. The students have learned about this topic all the way from Lower School to Middle School, but never had live –school- experience. As David Jakes concludes “Students must [...]

I was looking for some methods of presentation for my teaching objectives when I was in Lower School. Power Point slides became my life saver at that time. I think I have read a lot of interesting things on this site— Presentation Zen . Simplicity is the essence for maximum grasp of a subject. I think that [...]

John Medina Rule 10: Vision trumps all other senses .“We are incredible at remembering pictures. Hear a piece of information, and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it. Add a picture and you’ll remember 65%.” For helping the students to remember the new words quickly, I have used Comic Life project with sixth-grade Mandarin beginner students.…[Read more]

  Media-rich learning is the ideal way for teachers to connect with today’s students. After reading several articles about visual literacy, I feel very strongly that the IT courses I have been choosing have changed my teaching strategies.  I also acquired different skills which enabled me to broaden my scope of presentation methods in the classroom, [...]

When IT specialists invented a lot of image capturing tools, such as : Snipping tool , Screen Clipping tool, PrtSc SysRq , GadWin PrintScreen or Movie Makers , Ulead Studios and Camstudios, did they think about image usage at all? I felt so convenient to use these tools, but if I have to give credit to everyone, then …. When the students see [...]

My son’s 12 th Birthday is approaching (on 12/12). His wish is to have a cell phone. In my opinion, he doesn’t need one. He spends most of his time at school. Even after school, he joins the Tiger Shark swim team and International Soccer team, and his Mom is nearby, so he won’t need a cell [...]