Innovative Educator Blog by Lisa Neilsen

The Innovative Educator blog by Lisa Warlick is the most interesting for me. As an elementary school teacher, I found out about various ideas and lessons on how and what kind of technology to implement in primary grades. I learned that Mimio Board can be used to make math lessons interactive and enables children understand this subject better. A SmartPen is another technological device that both teachers and children can benefit from. Students can record the lesson and later go back into their notes and hear what was said in class. The pens allow the students to have a visual as well as audio record which they can then use to write. This is a great tool especially for slow learners to eliminate frustration and bring excitement into writing.  Lisa Warlick shares with another idea on how to make and publish books for free. With Flickr program students can make digital books that can be published online or printed for the classroom. This blog is a good source of ideas and lesson plans in terms of technology.