This past week I had the opportunity to spend a day with some of the faculty at Western Washington University talking about reverse instruction…or at least my idea of what that means. To get started, we did a little reverse instruction of our own where I had them read the connectivism article by George Siemens before I arrived. Once I […]
Andrew Vicars, one of our COETAIL participants, wrote a blog post that I was going to leave a comment on but then it got to a point where it needed its own blog post as it’s a conversation that continues to be talked about. It’s a conversation with many different points of view and so I thought I would add […]
It is once again that time of year when international teachers start having to decide if they want to head off to a new place or stay put for another year in the school/country they are in. If contracts haven’t already had to be signed they will be in the next couple of weeks. It is a fun/stressful time of […]
The Certificate Of Educational Technology And Information Literacy (COETAIL) program continues to expand and continues to grow. Just a quick announcment that we will be starting new cohorts soon. Here is a list of all the cohort starting in 2013 that still have room: COETAIL@Online (Reg. Open!) COETAIL@YIS – Japan (Reg. Open!) COETAIL@Seoul – Korea (Reg. Open!) COETAIL@SSIS – Vietnam […]
I was excited and then frustrated today. Yesterday I read about the changes Google was making to Gmail. Changes that when I read said to myself “That makes sense, that will work for me”. Then today I opened my inbox saw the pop-up that said I had gotten the upgrade and clicked continue. I then went on to struggle figuring […]