It’s the beginning of the year! Don’t burn your students out on quizzes just yet! Multiple choice questions are a staple in the classroom, but even though students have to answer them, they don’t have to do it in a boring way! Google Forms and Flubaroo (an add-on for Google Sheets) form a dynamic duo that […]
School’s Out for the Summer!
(If you weren’t humming Alice Cooper already, you are now!) It’s that time of year! If you are in the classroom you are either done with or wrapping up the 2015-2016 school year, but Literary Fusions is just gearing up for a crazy summer of conferences and in-district professional development! While we’re running around this summer, we […]
Review of Awesomeness: Google Cardboard
This blog post took forever. I apologize in advance for any productivity and time lost while you explore Google Cardboard. It is truly a black hole of awesomeness that will suck you in, but you won’t hardly care because it’s so cool! As I explored, there were about three categories that are distinct, but not necessarily separate: […]
Website/App Review: Google Keep
I know, I know…another Google tool! It seems every time I turn around, Google has something new and incredible to make our lives better! Google Keep is one of my personal favorites. It is in the top five tools I use every day (right up there with my email and my calendar) and I’m convinced it’s short […]
App/Website Review: Nearpod
I recently had the opportunity to use Nearpod with a group of fourth grade students, and as I was thinking about it, I couldn’t believe I haven’t written about this fantastic app yet! Nearpod is one of the “oldies but goodies” that has been around a while, but that you kind of forget about until you see it […]
Book Review: Violet the Pilot, by Steve Breen
Why I Picked It Up: This was a recommendation from a librarian in one of our sessions last summer, and it took me entirely too long to actually pick it up! With a two-year-old that loves everything airplanes, we rediscovered it at the public library as we were browsing one day a few weeks ago. We’ve read […]
