Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged High-School
Tracking Independent Reading in high school
Aug 20th
As I started talking about in my last post, we’re in the process of setting every high school student up with a blog to use as an e-portfolio. To help you wrap your head around why we’re using blogs as our container for this, I suggest downloading and reading the Free PDF I produced at the end of last year.
Once you wrap your head around the idea that these blogs are just a container that we can link into and out of then we can build our portfolio taking advantage of all the Web 2.0 world has to offer.
You’ll be able to find More >
At the speed of a click
Aug 20th
(Scribefire, my blogging platform finally updated to work with Firefox Beta 4 so now I’m back!)
I had the most incredible experience today. First of all I’m loving working with the high school kids. They just ‘get it’. I don’t have to explain things at a very deep level and we can just fly through the technology stuff and get down to business.
And when I mean fly….I mean…..at the speed of a click.
Today in a 45 minute session with eighteen 9th graders we:
Looking into the eyes of our students
Nov 25th
Friday was a half day at school. A little extended weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our High School took part in a couple different sessions. One of those sessions was by me giving a talk on “The Flat World”. I would have titled it “Your World” but the title doesn’t really matter.
I had 20 minutes with every 9-12th grader at our school I started by saying, “You are very fortunate. You get to grow up in an amazing time in history.”
I then played Karl Fisch’s Did You Know presentation with the follow slides added.
- There are 57 Million Blogs
- 100,000 new blogs created More >
