This past year was an incredible journey as I made the transition in June from full time educator to full time consultant.
Does Your EQ Pass the Google Test?
I have been thinking a lot about questions lately and Jim Laney’s recent post brought some of my thinking to the forefront. Essential Questions are the corner stone, in my opinion, to a good inquiry-based classroom. In thinking about this, I went back to one of my favorite books Understanding by Design (I lived by this book when I was […]
Do We Build For The Now Or For the Future?
The Baseball Winter Meetings just ended in Nashville. Which means absolutely nothing….unless you are a baseball diehard like myself…then it means everything. Today while listening to Eric Wedge, the Mariners manager, give a press conference, he spoke about building a team. He basically says there are two ways to build a baseball team…you either build for the short-term or the […]
1 Computer, 1 Document Camera
I was reading and commenting on COETAIL blogs when I came across this blog post from Julie. Julie and Gwen (a teacher and a librarian) work at the American Coopertive School of Tunis, where on September 14th a protest across the street from the school at the American Embassy turned violent. The school was burned and looted during the protest. Gwen put […]
Why K-12 schools are failing by not teaching SEARCH
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 […]
Really? It’s My Job To Teach Technology?
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 […]
International Recruiting Season: Times Are A Changing
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 […]
New COETAIL Cohorts Begin In 2013
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 […]
Being Comfortable Being a Beginner
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 […]
Learning 2.012 Reflection
I have been home five days now from my month long around the world trip (way to long…learned my lesson on that one!) and it is time to start writing down some of the things I was involved in, witnessed and helped to push forward in schools from Europe to Africa to the islands of Indonesia.