Too Noisy - Give Your Students Visual Feedback on Noise in Your Classroom

Last week I shared a couple of browser-based noise meters that show students how loudly they speak. That post was written in response a req...

Two Browser-based Noise Meters That Show Students How Loudly They Speak

Earlier this week on iPadApps4School.com I featured an app called Too Noisy that shows students how loudly they are speaking. The app meas...

Teachit Timer - A Slick Classroom Activity Timer

I've tried a bunch of online timers in the past. Until now Online-Stopwatch.com was my favorite. Yesterday, Peter Vogel introduced me t...

Do You Have a Google Jockey in Your Classroom?

Two weeks ago I gave the opening keynote at WLMA 2013  in Yakima, WA. During my keynote I mentioned the term "Google Jockey." It g...

21 ClassDojo Tutorial Videos

Earlier this week I shared some information about ClassDojo's iPad mini and Nexus 7 contest . That post resulted in a few people emailin...

10 Expectations That Students Have of Schools

Following up on my previous post about managing 1:1 classrooms, here's an interesting video that Esther Wojcicki shared on Google+ . M...

What My Dog Can Teach Us About Managing 1:1 Classrooms

I have two dogs, Morrison and Max. Morrison is my older dog, he's between ten and thirteen years old. Morrison was an adult when I adopt...

Don't Punish Everyone

Derek Sivers, whose TED Talk How To Start a Movement is still one of my favorites, recently published a new book titled Anything You Want ....

5 Free and Simple Timers for Teachers

In the school at which I teach we have eighty minute class periods. Eighty minutes is a long time for anyone, let alone teenagers, to stay i...