Blogs as Web Based Portfolios Part 1

Blogs as Web Based Portfolios Part 1

(Part 1 of a series of blog posts to be made into a free PDF. Your feedback, ideas and thoughts are critical!) The Purpose The purpose of this PDF is to help schools looking at adopting Web Based Portfolios (WBP) as a form of assessment with students over a period of time. By adopting a web-based platform as a container […]

If Only Time Really Was an Issue

If Only Time Really Was an Issue

<start rant here> I’m tired….the end of the school year is drawing near and I’m tired of…… “If only I had more time” I have news for you….you have just as much time as everyone else in the world. We all get 24 hours a day, 7 days every week, and 52 weeks a year. Nobody gets one minute more […]

Celebrating Teachers – Jim Fitzgerald

Celebrating Teachers – Jim Fitzgerald

As I mentioned in my last post what I love about this COETAIL program is it allows me to see education across the grade levels. Earlier this week I was in Jim Fitzgerald’s Higher Level Year 1 IB English Class (11th Graders), where students were working on a Semester Long Unit on Ekphrasis. Students are using their blogs as a […]

Celebrating Teachers – Mike Jessee

Celebrating Teachers – Mike Jessee

Sometimes there are teachers you just need to celebrate…..and that is this blog post (and the next). This week is only two days old but I’m already excited at what teachers who are finishing our COETAIL course are producing. The final course has them implementing everything we’ve learned in the four classes before into units or lessons within their content […]

What I learned from Laos

What I learned from Laos

Yawn……stretch…..nothing like a week off relaxing to get the creative juices flowing. Spring Break is now over and we’re in the home stretch here in Bangkok with 7 weeks of school to go before summer vacation starts. Over Spring Break, my wife and I spent four days in beautiful Luang Prabang, Laos (pictures can be found here). While in Laos, […]

Games and Bugs

Games and Bugs

As our first Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy program (COETAIL) draws to a close here at ISB educators are starting to put the finishing touches on their projects for the 5th and final course. They’ve been working all semester on putting into practice what we’ve been learning about the first 4 courses. They have been paired with a […]

Two Pitches

Two Pitches

(Stories from my side of the field Part 1 and Part 2 here) I throw another hand full of seeds into my month and wrap my jacket tighter around me. Man it’s cold today…wish the wind would quit blowing….I’m freezen! We’re in the second game of another weekend doubleheader at home. We’re up by a run going into the 7th […]