One of the best metaphors I have heard when it comes to talking about identifying those barriers that are created around student learning in our instructional design has to do with fish and the water they swim in. A fish may not be fully aware of the water they are swimming in as it is…
Today I had the pleasure of taking our Overwatch 2 team to the state tournament as part of the Iowa High School Esports Association (https://www.iahsea.org/). We finished the regular season 6-1 and entered the tournament as the #3 seed. We won the first round against Williamsburg HS but would lose the next round to Linn-Mar,…
Google seems to be constantly updating Sheets to make it easier to not analyze and use data but also easier to enter data. One of main features I have always used is the ability to have a dropdown in a cell. This dropdown makes it easier to either enter the same information time and time…
Esports in K12 schools has exploded over the last few years with schools creating clubs and competing in either state leagues or in some of the paid leagues (my preference is always for the state leagues). I first really thought about Esports at our schools when at FETC in January of 2020. While being someone…
Although ISTE 2017 was almost 2 1/2 months ago, I am still thinking about all of the great conversations I had with other educators after my Ingnite presentation. I was ecstatic to be able to share how my learning as a kid was affected by a piece of technology. Without that piece of technology, a…
This year at ITEC I presented about how to use some basic equations to do more with your data in a Google Sheet. There are about 10 equations that I use on a frequent basis when I am dealing with large amounts of data and I can easily move the data around to create the…
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.…
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