Melinda S. Miller

Hopefully this will help parents understand our website a little bit better. Ours is pretty simple. I cannot remember where I got this idea but I didn't come up with this on my own. If this was your idea PLEASE post a link to your video in the comments so I can share it too. ... Read More about School Website Video Tour

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I LOVE mind mapping software! My friend Richie at Mindmeister shared this information with me so I thought I should share with you! I think you will find this very helpful! Melinda What is Mind Mapping? The term ‘mind mapping’ is becoming more and more popular in the education world. So, you may ... Read More about Mind Mapping with Mindmeister – Guest Post

One of the other principals in my district came up with the idea of a digital book study! This is such a great idea I would love to hear how other principals have done this type of thing? Google doc? Wiki? (I posted a schedule of chapters for teachers to sign up to post. However I am using my iPad ... Read More about Digital Book Study – Classroom Instruction…..2nd edition

This certainly isn't an all inclusive list but....on of my teachers asked me about podcasts I subscribe to mad the easiest thing to do at the time was to take screenshots of my iPhone podcast screen. Keep in mind I don't even think to update these until I am at the gym getting ready to get ... Read More about My Podcast List

At least one teacher in each of my grade levels has an iPhone. I think. No, I'm pretty sure. If I can convince them all to make sure to upgrade this summer we may have found a solution to photo sharing when iOS 6 releases! Photo sharing pre-iOS 6: *Everyone, parents included, burn pics to CDs ... Read More about Looking Forward to Photostream Sharing in iOS6

If you want to record iPad and/or iPod tutorials for students and/or teachers have I found the app for you! Ok, so I didn't find this but it just came across my twitter feed. It's called Display Recorder.YouTube Video- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad ... Read More about Record Your iPhone or iPad Screen

Bill Carroza (@wcarozza) over at "Principal Reflections" sneaks in a blog challenge in his post "5 Reasons Educators Should Blog." Then my twitter friends @fliegs and @principalj throw me under the bus by challenging me on twitter! So what is a girl to do but call them out and be the first to post! ... Read More about 2012 Summer Blog Challenge Throw Down!

B.C. (before children) I could participate in all the live educational webcasts I wanted to. Now A.C. (after children) I am lucky to listen to half of the shows I love. Since I am not one to "throw in the towel" this is my morning learning set up..... You can see that while I get ready in the ... Read More about Bathroom PD

There are a lot of these lists out there and I read all of them. I did find a couple of new ones on this list to start to follow in my reader. And I sent a couple to my school counselor. This list also contains some of my favorite blogs to read. Is anyone else's "reader" getting low on things to ... Read More about “The 50 Best Blogs………”

Last night we hosted our 2nd successful school carnival. Whew! Carnivals are a lot of work and we will probably take a break for a year and try something else. But for those of you putting on a carnival soon here are our events and other stuff.... Signs....Duck pond! Isn't this a great and very ... Read More about Sharing Carnival Ideas

So far we have the following classroom auction items! We are very excited to see what else turns up!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone ... Read More about Carnival Silent Auction Items

At the beginning of the year I read the kids version of How Full is Your Bucket? We tied this in to our character education program. Students who were caught modeling monthly character traits were given a "drop" for the bucket. Each month the drop was a different color and students were recognized ... Read More about How Full is Your Bucket?

Wow! What an amazing week my PTO put on for my teachers for Teacher Appreciation Week 2012!We celebrated a week early so that we did not interfere with preparation for our school carnival.Daily teacher treats:Each day it was also "eat alot of something" but this is just one picture of the goodiesAnd ... Read More about Teacher Appreciation 2012

Every year we put together little candy grams for the students during testing week. This year we included our student council in helping with the preparations.....Yep! Only 4 days of testing this year:)- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone ... Read More about Candy Treats for State Testing

Today we welcome our new Kindergarten students! It's an exciting and nervous day for us and our new little guys and girls. Maybe our set-up for the day can be helpful to you.Welcome table to hand out paperwork....Some of our organization...Student name tag for pictures and folder of paperwork for ... Read More about Kindergarten Screening Resources

Last week we hosted a teacher tech training. We talked about management of Netbooks and iPads in the classroom at the beginning of the year. Below are resources we used.Each classroom has an iPad. This was our first year using them with students.Our district goal for elementary is for each grade ... Read More about Teacher Tech Training

Since I chose to memorialize my brother's Facebook page when he was killed last fall a lot of people have asked me about this. I chose to put this on my blog so I could refer others to this post when asked. The information below was sent to a family who lost a child recently and wondered if they ... Read More about Reflections on Memorializing a Facebook Page

I am looking for the EASIEST way to publish students voice recordings online. Like 2-3 steps at the most. This is not for me but to model for my teachers and/or give them the easiest possible tool. Here is what I have tried: Audacity - Took me a long time to figure out but once I did I can ... Read More about Looking for EASIEST way to publish student recordings???