This semester I am teaching completely online. I am finding it to be quite challenging and have been thinking about chronicling my journey. I want to write a journal of my experiences in teaching all of my classes online this semester and I am trying to select the medium. I will […]
Which apps should you use as a teacher? I don’t know – – – it all depends . . . It depends upon what you want to achieve, how you want to achieve it and who you want to achieve it with …I was just wandering the web when […]
http://www.bradycline.com/2013/in/ipad-typing/ While the research that compares keyboarding speed between ipad virtual keyboards and regular real-world keyboards is sparse, here is an article about some research that Brady Erin Cline did with his students, Typing: iPad vs Computer. They were grades 3 – 6 (8 to 11 years old)He found that […]
Just found this Symbaloo for Keyboarding created by Mr. Dean. It is a wealth of keyboarding resources. Check it out. What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment and keep the discussion going.
Source: GradSchoolHub.com What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment and keep the discussion going.
http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=3061 Last May, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of weeks with 6th graders in Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School in Iowa.I had the wonderful opportunity to work with 6th graders for a few weeks. We explored the Crazy World of Rube Goldberg using Problem-Based Learning. It was my […]
washingtonpost.com I just read this revealing post in the Washington Post blog. It is about an educator with 15 years of teaching experience who spent 2 days being a high school student. She sat through the lectures, took the tests, asked the questions, did the labs and sat through hours of […]
There have been many mash-ups that use TV shows to explain the various levels of the original Bloom’s Taxonomy but this is the first time I have seen them do one on the revised (1996) version of his work. What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment and keep the discussion going.
So how many of these signs do you find in the way YOU learn? How about in the ways your students learn? How can you use this to support your students’ learning? What do YOU think? Does this fit your ideas about learning? What’s YOUR opinion? Leave a comment […]
Image via Wikipedia Lots of school districts are launching 1-to-1 initiatives in their schools, but they are necessarily providing the keyboarding instruction that their students need to receive if they are going to get the most out of their new computers. Some teachers believe that the students need to take a […]