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Use CPS with Examview

eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System (CPS) allows teachers to get real time data while they teach.  Sometimes though, there is not time to prepare questions or a teacher simply wants pre-built content.

Examview is a digital content gallery.  Over the years it has amassed more than 14,000 standard aligned k12 questions from more than 60 leading text [...]

Loading Multiple Addresses Into Google Earth

As a visual learner I sometimes struggle to translate rows/columns of data into meaningful information.  Graphs, charts and other means of visually reporting data are a huge help to me.

I’ve used geotagging in Google Earth before with good results.  At one time I needed a way to better market an event and used addresses from [...]

Digital Literacy Fueling Student Writing

Clive Thompson recently posted a great article on Wired.com (link to original post).  The article, based on the studies of  Andrea Lunsford, a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University.  The conclusion that Andrea draws is that the digital age of wikis, blogs, email, texting and other communication tools has led to a massive [...]

Software Solutions for Response to Intervention in PA

The following was brought on by 2 separate roll-outs of RTI solutions by software companies in anticipation of PA establishing statewide RTI guidelines.

If you need a comprehensive description of RTI in PA then www.pattan.net is a good reference site. It breaks the system down into manageable pieces and also [...]

Interwrite Mobi gets great reviews

A quick history:  in 1971 PA set up 29 Intermediary Units (IU’s) to help educate the educators and integrate technology in the classroom.   Each IU has it’s own directors and paid staff to oversee it’s “territory.”  The main contacts between the schools and the IU’s are  tech savvy teachers, tech and IT directors called [...]