Are you attending the ITEC Conference next week in Des Moines? You should!!!! It will be an opportunity for over 1500 educators (1350 have registered now and all of the rest of the registration will be done on-site) to get together and share how they use technology to support learning […]
Are you going to the ITEC Conference on Oct 12 – 14? Will you be heading to Des Moines, Iowa to engage with 1500 other educators on October 12 – 14? It will be an incredible opportunity to learn about what other educators are doing with Educational Technology in […]
, In my last posting, Getting to Know Your Online Students Through Truths and Lies, I was telling you about an online activity that I using Google Sheets. The activity went well during our first class meeting (instead of reviewing the syllabus and all of that boring stuff) so I thought […]
It’s your first night for your online course. You meet with your online students through video conferencing (We use Zoom.us) so that your distant students will have a feeling of belonging to a group instead of just talking with each other through discussion forums. This is when you have to […]
theartofed.com I Can This and I Can That . . .What does this all mean? Students saying that they can do things instead of teachers telling them what they need to know using the time-tested ABCD (Audience, Behavior, Condition, Degree) performance objectives that we have been using for year? What […]
Are you using Badges in your classes? Alfie Kohn definitely isn’t using badges in his classes. He doesn’t like them. The video above is his discussion of caution about using badges and gamification. As you may know, Alfi is an advocate for change in schools. He has written a number of books about […]
DrZReflects.com I am privileged to be Zooming with Amy Kangas and her wonderful class of educators who are spending the next week exploring what it means to be a 21st Century Teacher. While I will just be there to answer questions and share some experiences, here are a few resources […]
You have heard about the most successful Educational Twitter Chat in Iowa. It is #IAedchat. Every Sunday at 8:00 (except 6/8/14), the gang from #IAedchat get together and hold a discussion between educators. The topics vary and the formats vary (sometimes include video broadcast) but the excitement remains the same. […]
I was just browsing the web when I found this wonderful posting by Terry Heick on Teach Thought entitled “10 Ways to Fake a 21st Century Classroom.” Terry does a wonderful job of identifying some indicators that are often seen as landmarks for 21st Century Learning. Once they have been […]
I was just reading Shannon Doak’s G+ postings when I found her posting about Christopher Emdin’s TED talk called Teach Teachers How to Create Magic. In this presentation, he talks about using Hip Hop Pedagogy to engage students in learning. He is a dynamic teacher who knows how to talk […]