This school year started off with a specific focus on goals and artifacts in several elementary schools around the district. Teachers at Geer Park, William Ford, Haigh, Maples and McDonald have begun using Mahara ePortfolios with their classes to keep track of goals...
Year: 2016
Tech Coach Tip: How to make last year’s iBlog posts invisible to students
With the start of the new school year, many teachers are looking to save their blog posts from the previous year, but make them invisible to students. This is a great idea to save yourself from "re-inventing the wheel" and also to help keep yourself on pace with the...
One tool EVERYONE should be using
Yesterday, I encouraged teachers to download one of the most potentially useful apps you can have on your mobile device: a QR-code reader. This is a simple app that allows you to use your camera to scan a code that looks like this...and go directly to a website,...
William Ford’s Virtual Zoo
Over the past month, I have had the opportunity to work with first graders in Ms. Miryam Shajrah's class at William Ford on a very exciting PBL project, the Virtual Zoo. Ms. Shajrah's first graders conducted research on an animal of their choosing, including such...
ISTE Standard*S: Standard 3: Research and Information Fluency
The third standard in our series on the ISTE Standards for Students is Research and Information Fluency. The standard says, "Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information." While it used to be the "librarian's job" to teach students...
Radical Learning Transformations in Mrs. Maynor’s Algebra 2A Class
Edsel Ford Math teacher Mrs. Angela Maynor recently created a virtual lesson using Moodle (iLearn). Her lesson consisted of several content pages that introduced the concept of radical equations. Her lesson is expertly organized, modeling sequences used by effective...