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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
(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 […]
What I love about presenting is how themes emerge within my presentations that I was never thinking about before the conference begins. But somewhere in the process of doing 6 presentations at the EARCOS Teacher’s Conference a theme in my sessions emerged. What is your container? We talked in many of my sessions about having a container to house all […]
A big part about ADE is creating something within your group. They call it challenge based learning…..I’d call it getting creative! We….teachers….do not get creative very often….do not take the time to get creative. I mean really creative. That’s what we were able to do at the ADE conference. We took time to be creative for us. Have an idea, […]
At day two of the #ADE2010 conference here in Singapore we focused our time on thinking about personal branding. Something that I believe all educators should think about and that I’ve discussed on this blog here, here and here. The presentation from Apple I believe was spot on in the fact that educators do not take enough time to pat […]
As I sit here in my hotel room an hour away from starting my official Apple Distinguished Educators (ADE) training this question keeps popping into my head. Do you support People or Platforms? It’s an interesting question…that I continue to reflect on. We all have strengths and weaknesses in the computer programs/platforms that we know. But do we some time […]
So let me cut through the smoke and mirrors and really tell you why this coming week is important to me. Simple….on Tripit.com I’m trailing David Warlick in the number of countries I’ve traveled to this year. As an International Educator….that’s just wrong! 😉 I won’t pass David this coming week but I’ll tie him going into the opening of […]