This last weekend I attended EdcampIowa in Ankeny, IA. This was one of the 4 (was supposed to be 5 but there was not enough interest at one site) sites across the state to make up what has to be the largest Edcamp (if you combine all of the participants). There were some great discussions…
With all of the negativity in the news this week for schools across the country, I am reminded more and more of what I have heard so many great digital leaders state; that we need to be our own PR department. There have been a lot of negative stories concerning schools and teachers that the…
As a GAFE school, there is a tool that is readily available that makes it easy to carry out student blogging in the classroom. Student blogging can serve many purposes as part of the learning process, from reflective writing to posting student creations to share with others. There are tools that make using Google Sites…
Students tend to be more engaged in a class when they feel like they are an active part of the learning process instead of just a bystander. One thing that I always enjoyed was allowing the students to help guide where we would go next in class or how we would go learning about our…
The biggest shift in the early part of my teaching career came when I came across a blog post (author since long forgotten) about how another teacher became not only happier, but also more successful with their students’ learning when they focused more on what the students were doing and less on what they were…
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…
Case Study in relation to lessons/activities that have been changed before and after 1:1 implementation. Technology use not for technology sake but in order to increase effectiveness and/or efficiency. (Names have been changed to protect the innocent or I just made up the whole thing from a mixture of examples that I have observed.) …
