Byrdseed

After writing an earlier article about differentiating objectives for gifted learners, I decided to create a system that would help me keep track of all my options. And so, The Differentiator was born!

In this series, I will be addressing some of the shortcomings of PowerPoint in the gifted classroom. As a computer science major and technology nut, I've always been eager to utilize PowerPoint for my students' benefit. But until I started reading some research, I never actually considered what those benefits were.

I wrote a little utility to randomly order sentences from a paragraph to see if students can reconstruct the original sentence. If you're interested, try Paragraphy out. If you'd like to know the background, keep reading...

Gifted students thrive on the novel, but there comes a point when I feel like I've used up all my interesting ideas. Who has the time and memory to keep fresh, new ideas flowing? Here are my top five free tools to quickly discover (and easily keep track of) new ideas…

Last time we looked at how PowerPoint frequently conflicts with the needs of our gifted students. Now, let’s walk through my recent attempt to improve a PowerPoint presentation by going beyond the default settings.