Ideas related to the big picture of teaching and learning as well as reflections from the learning process.
I am a firm believer that video is a powerful tool in the classroom, both for the students and for the teacher. I am not talking about just watching a video for 45 minutes and hoping that the students took something away but video in the sense of how many are not using it. We…
(Thanks to @sandirankin for taking this picture of me presenting) Finally had some time to reflect and recover a bit mentally from ITEC and I am certain that it was a great success for me. I thought both of my presentations went well and I had some great conversations with others that will help me…
Tomorrow I will be at the fall conference for ITEC and I will be prepared thanks to being through this all before. I think there are some things you can easily do to be prepared when attending a conference because the learning can happen in many different ways. The following are ways that I am…
After attending the ICTE conference yesterday (Iowa Council of Teachers of English) in Johnston and teaching some physics yesterday and today, I am very much ready for the ITEC conference on Monday. I am a big proponent of going to education conferences as long as you focus on how you can improve as an educator…
Throughout my teaching career I have been put into certain situations where I did not have the tools or resources necessary to do what I wanted, or so it would seem. I have found ways over the years to take what I have and turn that into what I want, as best as I could.…
October is always a busy time for teachers due to the first quarter ending and parent/teacher conferences starting up but yet we also have another thing to look forward to, educational conferences. At least in Iowa, October is when the educational conferences start up. We have ICTE (english teachers) next week, ITEC (ed tech) the…
One of the things I love the most about being in classrooms in my role as tech integrationist is that I still get to see great examples of learning. Those times when students are so engaged in their learning that they even forget that it is time to leave for lunch. Those times when you…
This last Saturday I was down in Des Moines for what was my 5th Edcamp. I love Edcamps as they are a great opportunity to connect with others and to learn from each other. There are no experts in the room, although some people do have more background knowledge than others, but it is more…
I have heard this said a lot lately that we must make ourselves uncomfortable in order to see real growth. That if we only do what we are used to and comfortable with, we will not be able to grow as we are just doing what we have always done. I think the phrase “That’s…
We are now living and learning in the digital age and there is something lacking in a lot of educational settings. We use digital resources, we post online, we have students traversing the highways of the internet and yet we do not address the ways in which we should behave when online and how this…
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