Ideas related to the big picture of teaching and learning as well as reflections from the learning process.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting at the Iowa 1:1 Conference in Des Moines, IA. This was not my first time presenting there as I had presented in 2011 about the Flipped Classroom I was implementing. This time I presented twice, first on Flipped Professional Development and then on using Doctopus in the classroom.…
Dan Meyer recently gave a keynote at CUE 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRsE6mKkDjw) and discussed how it was not about the tool but was about the mission in the classsroom, and I could not agree more. A teacher recently asked me for a good tool to use and I had to pause, for a long time. I know…
True learning involves a process that never ends, we are continually growing and changing as we learn. The learning process is one that should make us continually evaluate what we “knew” before and allow to us make changes to everything as we learn something new. Learning involves a process of trying things out, possibly failing,…
In the classroom I would always make sure that all levels of my students were able to show growth. I realized early in my teaching career that you can not just focus on one level or you will lose the rest. The same can be applied in my role as technology integrationist. As the year…
This past weekend I went down to SE Polk for Edcamp Iowa. This was the largest connects Edcamp in the country as we had 5 locations in all corners of Iowa. Somewhere around 700-800 educators took part and from what you could tell on Twitter, it was a giant success as far as learning and…
Earlier this year we had something at my school called Tech Time where we would meet once a week, before school or after school, to go over some tech tool or technique in the classroom. This was totally voluntary and it was something that was done before I took my position this year as tech…
Many people are not sure how to get started using technology well in the classroom, our goal is not to just use tech but to use tech effectively to positively impact the learning taking place in our classrooms. People often have trouble getting started and are unsure how to get started once we have technology…
I was reflecting the other day on those events and methods that have had an impact on my teaching career so far and it was easy to see that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, was the birth of my son over 3 years ago. That was the day that I had a…
One of the main reasons that I went into teaching was that teaching offered the opportunity to face so many challenges throughout the day. I love challenges and being challenged, I like to see what I can do and what I still can’t do. Right now I am trying to see if my body can…
This is the first post on my new site. As I work with more and more people across the country and world, I figured I needed another site to make sure that all of my posts and ideas get placed into one location. This will be my site but it will also include work that…
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