Google Educator Level 1 Training Options
Where do I? One of the questions I get asked a lot, particularly at conferences or workshops, is, "Where can I get training before I take the Google for Education Educator Level 1 exam?" So, I thought I'd give you my thoughts on some options. Do-It-Yourself In the...
ISTE 2017 Ideas and Experiences
At the Beginning Overwhelming. That’s the word that I hear the most often when people first come to ISTE. It’s huge. Like seriously huge. I don’t know how many people are here at ISTE 2017, but I’m guessing well over 20,000. This place is a madhouse! I hit my...
Tech Tools for Summer Travel
Simplify Planning With a Few Awesome Tools Summer is the time when teachers everywhere take a deep breath and relax for a minute, before the flurry of vacation and professional development begins. Personally, my summer is a mixture of traveling to conferences and...
Effective Blended Course Design
In the past, I haven't really thought about effective course design. Well, that's not really true. I do think about it obsessively when I think about how to structure and present information, but I haven't really thought about it as formally as presented in the...
Types of Learning Activities in Blended Learning
In this week's module, we're exploring types of learning activities in blended learning courses. So, I thought I'd share some of my favorite tools and activities with my readers! Assimilative (processing and structuring information): Google for Education, Google,...
Authentic Assessment and Online Learning
Why Bother With Authentic Assessment "If learning is not transferred from the place of learning to practical application, there can be no positive return on investment of the time needed to create, implement, and evaluate instruction. Students are smarter than we...
Four Models of Educator Involvement
In our BlendKit course this week, we are presented with four models of the role of educators in a networked environment. These four models are John Seely Brown’s notion of studio or atelier learning Clarence Fischer’s notion of educator as network administrator...
Welcome to Blended Learning – Initial Thoughts
BlendKit 2016 Today I started working on my UCF BlendKit course (yes, I did procrastinate a few days, but I'm busy!), which is all about blended learning. Our first reading is all about understanding blended learning. I've taught sort-of blended learning courses...
Google for Education Certified Trainer
Sharing My Love for Google I did it! I am finally a Google for Education Certified Trainer! I'm so excited, and a little overwhelmed. I think that's probably normal at the beginning of a new adventure. Sure, I'm still teaching, but I'm hoping that this opens some...
Cultural Criticism & Globe Trotting
Context This semester, my seniors are exploring cultural criticism. They'll be reading Shaun Tan's The Arrival, which is an amazing wordless graphic novel. Following a man through his immigration story, the author does an amazing job helping the reader to understand...