Disconnect to Connect
Back from a week in Northern Thailand where I took twenty-one 10th and 11th grade students on a week long journey into manual labor,…
Author: Jeff Utecht
I started blogging in 2005 and found it such a powerful way to reflect and share my thinking about technology, this generation, and how we prepare students for their future not our past.
A Week Without Wires
This coming week I’ll be disconnected from the world…and will be enjoying it. Each year our high school students take a week off away…
Learning through Presentations
“How many of you have done the 18 minute, right before class, copy and paste, plagiarized, bullet point, turn and read off the screen…
Royalty Free Music and EmbedPlus
Two quick great websites I came across today that deserve more than a tweet. Jewel Beat: Check it out…some great sounds, songs, and effects.…
Wiktionary in the EAL Classroom
My favorite part of the CoETaIL program that Kim and I run is coming up this semester. The 5th and final course for the…
Machines won't Replace You, Communities Will
Last Friday I had the pleasure of Skyping into a school in Singapore to talk about my TEDx Talk I did back in September. The principal…
Fishbowls and Chat-rooms
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…
Why I #hashtag all me tweeted links
Some rights reserved by ntr23 Many of you that follow me on Twitter might wonder why I’ve been using a hashtag on every tweet…
Reverse Instruction – U.S. History
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…
Google to hold first ever Global Science Fair
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…