Author: Kristin Annab

According to the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) website the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for students were developed to help educators evaluate if their students had developed the essential skills and knowledge required...

There were some commonalities amongst the three videos entitled “More Fun Than a Barrel of . . . Worms?!” (Curtis, 2001, October 1), “Geometry Students Angle into Architecture through Project Learning” (Armstrong, 2002, February...

I chose to use my class blog kristinannab.com as my “you.com” project.  It was created in WordPress.  I chose this because it already had many of the things that were being asked for. It already had my...

Please click on the following link to view my final project for EDIM 501. Motivating Students Through Play to Research and Plan a Virtual Vacation

Click on the following link to see a first grade learning contract focused on teaching empathy to first graders. First Grade Learning Contract      

I watched a live web broadcast on  http://simplek12.com/webinars/.   I watched a webinar entitled How to get the most out of the teacher learning community.  It was held on June 10 at 1:00 pm pacific...

Each year I taught first grade, I had my students start each week with a journal entry.  I would give them a topic to write about and they would write in their journals.  They had Mondays and Tuesdays...

DAY 1: Monday, June 2, 2014 – the first day of summer vacation. Today, we traded in my loyal 2001, Ford Expedition for a beautiful Nissan Pathfinder.  We bought the Expedition when I was pregnant with...