We’ve had our iPods up and running for a few months now and it’s about time we shared some of our experiences with them. A little while back, I wrote about our initial plans for using them around literacy, which focused on comprehension strategies that are often reserved for teaching students to be better readers. [...]

Our class has access to 10 iPods! How cool is that? Really, it’s only been for the last couple months, but we are really excited to be learning how these devices can enrich our learning. There are actually 20 in the school, but we only have 10 of them because there are actually two initiatives [...]

Monday, October 25th, 2010 was National School Library Day. While we have set aside time each day to read silently, on this day we booked ourselves into the school library so we had significant more room to find a cozy spot to read. Reading usually receives mixed reviews from students. This reaction is often tied [...]