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For years, I’ve proudly explained my content specialities in grades 4-8 as having a strong focus on “content literacy.” Imagine my surprise during the first video in MOOC, when they explained that content literacy is an intermediary step with Disciplinary Literacy being the… Continue Reading →
Once you get some content online from your face-to-face classroom you might wonder how to facilitate that area of your classroom. This is a good question because a significant portion of a teacher’s work in a face-to-face classroom is classroom management… Continue Reading →
Blended Learning Amplifies Teaching Blended Learning is changing teaching. Changing teaching from something which happens once to something which is available to a student as s/he is ready. The focus turns to the learner and his/her needs. There is something exotic in… Continue Reading →
While you convert your class into a blended learning experience is the perfect time to spring clean. Clean up your content Broken links are a show stopper for any online portion of a course. Consider investigating if your Learning Management System… Continue Reading →
Some of the classrooms in America look like they could be launching a rocket any minute. Some look the same as when my great-grandmother taught in a one-room school-house, save the clothing fashions. But we are not talking about those two… Continue Reading →
Conventional wisdom dictates that some things cannot be rushed. In education, that often meant you needed to put in your years before you were wise. I would suggest that even though school years plod on at a consistent pace, your… Continue Reading →
I try to weave professional books into my reading when I can. Being a teacher in a Technology Department puts me in a special category; I have a lot I need to learn about EdTech Leadership! This book contains a foreword… Continue Reading →
The moment you realize that you cannot work any harder as a teacher is the time to make some changes. Luckily, we have access to many educational technologies in our classrooms we could not have dreamed about ten years ago…. Continue Reading →
The good news is that there are more resources than ever with which to teach! The not-so-good news is how are you supposed to keep track of all of this? [Tweet “In an online world how is a teacher supposed to… Continue Reading →
Why Are Teachers Using Twitter? It is safe to say no other social media has been co-opted into education like Twitter. A recent post by one of the founders of #EdChat, @Tom Whitby, sums the relationship between Twitter and educators nicely:… Continue Reading →
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