I wanted to follow up on the reverse instruction lessons I’ve been working with teachers on.You can read the first blog posts here on the outline in English and U.S. History.
Here’s a bit of the chat conversation:
‹Alex› what if there was no external validation? wouldn’t we all …
Many of you that follow me on Twitter might wonder why I’ve been using a hashtag on every tweet I share with links to websites I find interesting. The simple answer is I’m lazy…..I always look for ways to reduce my clicks.
I use to …
U.S. History has to be one of the hardest classes to teach at an international school. When at best half your students would be from America and at worse none…yet our U.S. based curriculum says we have to teach it. So how do you motivate students who for the most …
Now this is just down right cool! Mashable is reporting that in a few hours from now on 1/11/11 Google will be announcing the first ever global science fair. So many possibilities and I can only image what students will submit. The fair is open to 13 – 18 …
Today was our first day back to school after the holiday break and the first day of my little reverse instruction experiment with teachers and students. Jim Fitzgerald, who I’ve blogged about before, decided he’s be one of my guinea pigs….again.
Every good …
Yawn…..stretch…..and slowly pulling myself back into the real world after almost three weeks of vacation that included little time on the computer and a lot of time with friends and family. The way holidays should be.
The big technology gift this year actually went to …
It is less than 24 hours before I take off for Seattle and 2 1/2 weeks of relaxation. Between work and consulting/conferences I have not had two weekends off in a row since I landed back here in Thailand in August, and I’ve worked through every other holiday we’ve had. …
It’s that time of year again in the international education world of contracts, decisions, and thinking about your future. Kim Cofino has a great post about finding the right fit…the right school. Whether you are an international educator or not it’s worth a read.
International Teachers are different…we’re …
The Edublog Awards Nominees are out and much to my surprise one of our students from here in Bangkok is on the list. Why is this surprising? Because I didn’t nominate her and other than myself and Chrissy I’m not sure anyone else at our school knows the Edublog Awards …
Last Tuesday I was given 10 minutes at the staff meeting to update the high school staff on tech happenings here at ISB.
This would be the most time I’ve spend in front of the entire high school staff this year and I wanted to try and use the …
