Next Gen Teachers, A lot of buzz surrounding “Yahoo Pipes” at the moment. My favorite early adopter and news master Robin Good describes it like this: “Put simply, Yahoo! Pipes is a way of visually manipulating data feeds from around the web, and mashing them together into new interactive creations. Yahoo! Pipes lets you drag [...]

Does your school have a keyboarding program? If so when does it start and what does it use as its main software? We are looking at re-evaluating our program and I have to ask: Is it important that K-5 students learn to keyboard or will they just pick it up through exposure and integration of [...]

In last week’s first inaugural Next Gen Teachers podcast discussion came up around interactive white boards and whether or not they impact teaching and learning. These boards are popping up in classrooms all around the world and there are definitely two camps with opinions on the issue. I have over five years of experience using [...]