Award Winning Teacher – International Speaker – Author
As a teacher you have good days and you have bad days and if you are lucky you have a great day. Today was one of those great days. We held our inaugural Innovation Day for the 6th grade in my building. Throughout the day we had over 250 6th grade students working on self […]
Continue ReadingLast night I spent the evening in my son’s preschool reading books with him and his friends for literacy night. This was the eighth time this school year that either my wife and/or I have been in my son’s school interacting with teachers, students, parents and the principal. Four of these times were for “parents […]
Continue ReadingI recently looked back and noticed that I have offically been blogging for 6 months now. As a 6 month anniversary post I wanted to compile a list of my most viewed posts. I know the first three months or so my dad was probably the only one reading the blog. Hi Dad! I Resign From […]
Continue ReadingTuesday night’s #edchat discussion about feedback got me thinking about a number of things. I wanted to reflect upon those things in what I hope will not become a completely rambling post. For me, there are a number of ways in which feedback could and should be used. In addition, there are a number of […]
Continue ReadingWith all the negative press that educators as well as technology is getting, I thought it time for another take on the news. Please enjoy…and share your own stories. Thanks to George and Alec Couros for letting me use their work.
Continue ReadingIn education there are five types of teachers when it comes to technology use in their classrooms…in my humble opinion. Oblivious – IWB? Twitter? What does that mean? These are teachers that don’t know what they don’t know. Technology is not something they use nor do they seek to learn about it. Fearful – The […]
Continue ReadingDespite an overall let down this past week at ICE, I do have a hand full of resources to share. Hands down on of the best sessions I went to was a Media Literacy session Friday morning. I did not attend all of these sessions but some of these are from the tweets that were […]
Continue ReadingYes, I did kill a dog…kind of. I stepped on one of my son’s toy dogs in the basement and it broke. Although the bruise on my foot would indicate that I actually lost that fight. With that out of the way, here is the real reason I am writing this post. The past three […]
Continue ReadingFrom: David Shankbone via wikimedia.com I am writing this post while sitting in a session that I will not name at ICE2011. During the session the presenter made the comment, “Hello, the 1980s called and it wants its assignment back.” The comment was in the context of a conversation about projects teachers ask kids to […]
Continue ReadingHere is a copy of the prezi I shared today with my session at ICE11. Movie Magic on Prezi
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