A popular topic this month at faculty meetings (I’m sure everywhere in the U.S.) is state testing. And especially online testing! One observation from our fourth grade team that completed the MCAS online last year was the brevity of student responses. It was speculated that the size of text boxes for typing responses may have […]

Last week, I read a blog post about Google Docs Story Builder. The idea of writing a story about characters writing/collaborating on a story intrigued me and made me wonder if elementary age students would be able to utilize it? The first experiment: A third grade class was learning about opinion writing. They had read […]