Earlier this week I handed in my resignation letter to my Head of School, Dr. Gerrtiz. It’s funny the two responses I’ve been getting. Those who know me well and understand the international teaching world knew this was probably coming soon. I mean I’ve been here for four years…in Jeff’s world that is an eternity. In fact these four years […]
My Brother Harvesting Dry Peas Technology continues to reinvent every part of our lives. Even parts of our lives that we don’t think about everyday. Farming is one of these. As a field of study (pun intended) and as a practice agriculture has gone through and continues to go through some major changes. In a recent article on Read Write Web Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote about the […]
A blog post I wrote to High School Students. As I’ve been helping students get going with their gmail accounts and blogs over the past couple of weeks I’ve been joking about the “old school” e-mail systems that some of you still use. Hotmail, Yahoo…and seriously….AOL…come on….. But there is another old school tool that I think has seen its best days […]
My thoughts after reading Seth Godin’s post Back to (the wrong) school and Douglas Rushkoff post Are Jobs Obsolete? The other day I was looking at a curriculum map similar to this one: As I was looking over it I started shaking my head and wondering how do we personalize education in a standardized system? […]
As we move to Google Apps for Education at my school I gave a quick 10 minute talk at a staff meeting on 5 Gmail Tips for Teachers. Here they are: 1. Archive is Your Friend Getting use to archiving everything is a change. Google wants you, begs you, to archive your e-mails so you can search for them later. […]
A blog post I put out to this year’s COETAILers….cross posted here Some rights reserved by stevendepolo Ready or not a new school year is upon us and the CoETaIL Program continues to expand. This will be the second year of CoETaIL under this site and structure and the expansion of the program to international schools continues to grow. Here’s a list […]
It’s been said many times: If you give every student a laptop but do not fundementally change the way you teach than the power of the new technoogy will never be reached by stevendepolo OK….maybe not exactly like that but I’m sure you’ve heard quotes like it whenever talk turns to 1:1 programs. The real question is: How does teaching […]
At ISB we’ve struggled over the past couple of years in defining our web spaces. Although we’ve been getting better at using the “Core 3” (Moodle, Google Apps, WordPress) we still need to define spaces based on purpose and audience. One thing I’m focusing on this year is creating what I’m calling a Virtual Bulletin Board for our high school […]
Throughout a day at work I end up taking and sending a lot of screenshots to teachers to help them troubleshoot issues or just to remind them where to click. I thought it would be fun to keep all the screenshots from one day at work and let them tell the story of what teachers are working on, where they’re […]
A great feature popped up in my Google Apps for Educaiton GCal the other day. I was putting in some meetings and noticed an “Appointment Slots” link in the event window. Not sure how long it’s been out (please somebody tell me it hasn’t been years), but it’s turning out to be a fantastic tool for education. Basically you can […]