Date registered: November 27, 2011
May 20
Projects–Step Two Planning the Project This is Step Two of teaching with projects–How to plan a project To sum up, my previous post, this is where you should be: You have decided your project goal. If you are doing a group project, you probably have made project groups . You have decided the topic and, …
May 13
Projects–Step One Setting your Goals and Making Groups Projects that accomplish specific learning objectives, also called project-based learning, is the best way to learn. I’ve been using projects for more than 10 years now, but what if you are just starting out and want to use projects in your teaching, but you really have no …
May 04
In the past, I talked about google docs, and why it is so useful for teachers who do a lot of work at home. I have also talked about making quizzes in Google Docs, and how to make a quiz that literally grades itself. Now, let’s take it a step further. Let’s try something new. …
Apr 10
Who is your boss? Most teachers would say ‘the principal’. Or, perhaps, ‘the board of education’ or the ‘the superintendent’? No. Or, yes, in the literal sense, but no. Your boss is your students. You understand what I mean. A teacher’s goal should be to give the students the tools they need to meet their …
Mar 25
What can we learn by playing video games? If you are like me, you think of video games as sitting in front of the TV, controller in hand, shooting space aliens that are falling from the sky; perhaps driving a formula one car on a twisted race track–that kind of thing. This is the first …
Mar 18
What is daydreaming? Well, that probably varies a little among individuals, but a report on Scientific American, showed that daydreaming Daydreaming is your brain putting its excess power to good use. In other words, when you daydream, your brain is staying active by daydreaming since whatever it is you are really doing is not keeping …
Mar 07
Why are you here? Why are you teaching? Why are the students learning? Why? The most important question you will ever ask your students (and perhaps yourself) is this. Can you answer the question? Can your students answer the question? If they cannot, you have not convinced them that what you are teaching has …
Mar 02
Do you like corn flakes? Toast? Maybe you eat toast and corn flakes for breakfast sometimes, as do I. They are not bad. Sometimes. How about every morning? Imagine eating corn flakes and toast for breakfast. Every day. Every week. Every month. Sound horrible? Stop it, then. Do you sometimes feel that …
Feb 26
Edmodo is a free safe learning environment. What does that mean? To put it basically, Edmodo is an online space that resembles a bulletin board service like Facebook. Only There are many ways that you can use Edmodo as a tool in your classes and curriculum. I have mainly used it as a way to …