Tweet, tweet

Using Twitter ( http://www.twitter.com ) as a teaching tool has become a new goal of mine. There are so many celebrities that get on or text their 'tweets' from their phones, so Twitter can be full of mindless information, but I think I can change some of it.

I can tweet my kids a question and they can answer back to me - it can create a discussion! I can even post daily history facts, math questions, science information, or links to great news stories from around the world.

The one hurdle I have to jump is getting the kids to log on. We give them email addresses and they have difficulty logging on and checking that, so how can I motivate them to look at Twitter too? That's going to take some brainstorming...

Paperless

The school really wants to be an online school, but I keep getting things in my email that say "Print this out, have the student sign it and then scan it back in and send it to so-and-so." Does this make sense? I understand that there are some things that have to be signed by hand (and not digitally) but 90% of our paperwork should stay online.

I have a fantastic HP that has the touch screen and pen, so I can write all I want all over the screen and on any type of document! Too cool!

The documents I have all stay on my computer, I hand it over to the student and say "read this then sign here." Really simple, no paper, no scanning, nothing. The document can instantly be emailed or placed on dropbox (check out Dropbox.com) and everyone can access it :)

Go paperless, save the planet while you're at it!!!