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Top 10 Reasons that Blended Learning is Worth the Hype!
By using a blended learning model, teachers can use an online learning platform, online discussions, and/or work online to complement classrooms and save time, money and engage students. Continue reading
5 Student-Driven Projects That Engage Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Using an online component to complement in-class work makes it much easier to facilitate meaningful group work. Prior to adopting and integrating online discussions, I struggled to facilitate group work that really worked. When facilitating group work in the classroom, … Continue reading
Online Book Clubs: Develop a Culture of Reading on Your Campus!
Online book clubs can make it easy for teachers, librarians, media specialists and administration to engage a single class or an entire campus in an online book club. Continue reading
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12 Tech Tools That Will Transform The Way You Teach!
In a Simple K12 blog post titled “17 Signs Your Classroom is Behind the Times” they provide a list of things that characterize a classroom that has fallen behind. Number 16 lists a variety of technology tools that every educator … Continue reading
Digital Storytelling: Funky Fairytales
CLICK HERE for Funky Fairytale Questions in Collaborize Classroom Topic Library Today, I had the pleasure of presenting for Discovery Education’s Virtual Tech or Treat Conference. My presentation is titled “Digital Storytelling: Engage Students in Collaborative Creative Writing in Class … Continue reading
Fighting Engagement Deficit Disorder
This disconnect between the way students live their lives beyond the walls of the classroom- plugged in- and the way they are required to behave inside the traditional classroom concerns me as a parent and a teacher. I worry that the current approach in most public schools (mine included) will alienate students and dampen- if not completely destroy- their desire to learn. Continue reading
QR Codes and Student Centered Learning
Yesterday, I attended EdcampSFBay at Skyline High School in Oakland for an educational technology Unconference. I presented two sessions in the morning – 5 Simple Strategies to Create a Safe Space Online & Flip Your Classroom with Online discussions – then spent … Continue reading
5 Reasons Teachers Should Create a PLN Now!
This morning I had a conversation with a fellow teacher. When I asked how she was doing, she said she was “fighting the Back-to-School blues.” With 9 years of teaching and back-to-schools under my belt I both identified with her … Continue reading
ISTE 2011: Birds of a Feather Session Highlights
Birds of a Feather: Learning Through the Wisdom of We During my Birds of a Feather session at ISTE 2011 on Tuesday night, I led a discussion with Colt Briner about the Wisdom of We. The purpose of the discussion … Continue reading
Flip Your Classroom with Online Discussions!
This is an excerpt from a chapter in my blended learning book (in progress) on flipping instruction using online discussions. In the traditional classroom delivery of content takes place within the walls of the classroom and homework is usually an … Continue reading