Using Prentation Zen in the classroom
I’ve always believed that getting teachers into this connected world will slowly trickle it’s way down to affect student learning…and today I proved myself…
Category: Teaching & Learning
Posts on classroom practice, student engagement, assessment, and how learning happens in schools and online.
How fine is the line between socialization and social learning
Dough Johnson and Ann Krembs are here at ISB this week consulting with our school and the Library Review Committee on creating/restructuring our library…
When to start teaching self branding
I was co-teaching earlier this week in a 7th grade environments class. The students were signing up for the wiki they were going to…
True E-Folios for students
A couple days ago I shared how the 1st grade here at ISB is creating Portfolio’s for students using iPhoto. They are simple Quicktime…
Learning to Navigate the Web
Today in a second grade class we talked about how to navigate a website. It was the start of an animal unit where students…
There's no spork for eduction!
(As I promised Kim….full credit for her on the title of this post.) There is no one size fits all when it comes to…
The Age of Composition
Miranda Clemson’s left a comment on a recent post of mine and included a link to an eSchool News Article: NCTE defines writing for…
A Week of Teaching and Learning
It’s been a whirlwind of a couple weeks and I find myself…yet again out of balance spending more time on work and “projects” and…
School's about Being Social
One of the best conversations I had at NCCE was about the new virtual high schools that are starting up in in Oregon, Washington,…
The beginning of the end cont…
Last week I wrote about the beginning of end for schools with the creation and launch of the University of the People that will…