Feb
19
This is the post I wish you didn’t need, but you do, hopefully one day you won’t. Plan for plenty of sessions broken into three parts, video, vocabulary, question practice. Find an always available teacher An always available teacher is one nice enough to leave digital breadcrumbs for you to review whenever you need to. …
Jun
11
Opportunities for keeping the spark alive Opportunities for keeping the spark alive after professional development is over and the teachers return to their classrooms are often missed. Here are a collection of ideas to reinforce and recapture that initial rush of enthusiasm Schedule practice time on a regular basis. Encourage participants to snag a partner …
May
10
Edcamp Boston unconference was this Saturday. It was so successful many teachers left with the hope of doing the same type of unconference professional development model at their school. It can be a very hard sell to the powers that be because it can come out all wrong and counter intuitive and it sounds so …
Oct
05
Dear TED, Please edit a clean version so teachers can show this in schools. Thx.
Oct
31
Creativity is messy, doodling is good. Peter Reynolds, nominated entrepreneur of the year from fablevision has given 16 year olds everywhere the ultimate excuse (especially the one sitting in a messy room upstairs at my house). I heard the good news during my massCUE conference highlight- a session with Peter Reynolds talking about creativity and imagination and …
Oct
03
Attended a free webinar from O’Reilly media Thursday hosted by Dan Meyer, a math teacher from Santa Cruz. The seminar was boldly title “How to save Math Education” Even if you are not a math teacher, this is talking about getting students to think…and applies to all teachers really. It’s just hidden in a math …
Sep
06
Back to school is a good time to commit to searching out tools online that students can really use to make learning more effective. These are the top 12 free tools that I use with teachers and students and they can be found year round on my public netvibes page. Many of these tools help …
Jul
16
The art museums I have visited this year have wonderful online features. These Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings were fabulous up close. You have until 2033 to see them at Mass Moca, but you can take a sneak peak online and see interactive timelapses of how they were created. Online art activities and ideas can be …
Jul
14
Leonardo Da Vinci was more than an artist, he was an inventor, an architect and still has a lot to teach us. For our summer brain fit challenge today we are going to spend sometime in his workshop for an online edventure and then go out and about and do some art projects outside. First …
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