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…
I am helping out this week in a classroom where the teacher wanted to do something other than the posters they had done in the past. We decided on allowing the students to choose what they use to do the project as long as it could be shared with others and met the contextual guidelines.…
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…
Spring Break is a great time to refresh and to get ready for the final part of the school year. It can also be the time you use to prepare to try something new in the classroom. I did my first trial of a flipped classroom after spring break, using the time before and during…
One of the best things that I did this year was attend a couple of Ed Camps. Before last spring I had never attended an Ed Camp or really even heard too much about them. I would see some stuff on Twitter about them but didn’t think too much about it. Luckily I had some…
TRANSFERRING VIDEO FROM PHONE TO COMPUTER Your phone can make a great video camera, but moving that video to your computer can be tricky sometimes. If you have already synced your phone with your computer, moving … Posted Feb 11, 2014, 6:24 AM by Patrick Donovan MOVENOTE: WEB BASED VIDEO CREATOR INTEGRATED WITH GOOGLE APPS Movenote is a nice, web-based…
One key thing that can happen when students have easy access to technology is that their work can be shared with so many other people. When we have students produce work in class that just goes to the teacher, there is an audience of 1. If we have that same student share that piece of…
This is not my first time going through the implementation of a 1:1 as I was previously at another school before and during the first 3 years of the 1:1 there. There we gave our students the white MacBooks and we had some successes as well as some, well, we will just call them not-successes.…
One thing that many people have trouble with when viewing the effectiveness of technology in the classroom, is that technology can not solve bad teaching. In many classrooms you will see techniques that are not effective but they are still being used, due to many reasons such as a lack of time to develop better…
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