Today, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Direct Instruction Summit in Long Beach.  I shared some simple ideas for integrating technology in the elementary classroom.  A video version of my Explain Everything presentation is below.  The videos that I shared during the live presentation were not captured in the upload so those three videos are listed below the lesson on a YouTube playlist.  Finally, I included a link to the QR Code Scavenger Hunt spreadsheet that shows various apps/websites and how they can be used in the classroom for effective first instruction.

Click on the "PLAYLIST" button in the top left corner to view any of the three videos I used today in my presentation.

Our first goal this year was to read 10 million words.  We followed that up with another challenge - 15 million words before the end of school.  Well, we have 4 days left with 362,708 words to go.   

Scholars simulated three types of Earthquakes faults using books and sugar cubes.