How are you integrating technology? Take a look at this short video clip to help you think about how your technology integration relates to the depth of knowledge of tasks taking place in your classroom....
Bob Harrison
iBlog: Maximizing Teacher Effectiveness and Empowering Learning
Teachers across the Dearborn Public Schools are doing fabulous work communicating with students, parents, and the community at large. The daily and weekly happenings of the classroom, learning targets, resources, links, and student work are being displayed for all to...
Interpreting iLearn (Moodle) Quiz Data
One of the many advantages to using Moodle (iLearn) in addition to the flexibility of the Quiz module (the number attempts, shuffling questions, inserting variables into numerical questions) is the wealth of usable data you can glean from each quiz. Bryant science...
Mr. Belknap’s Two-Draft Reading Lesson
I've had the good fortune of teaming up with English Language Arts teacher Mr. Jacob Belknap from Edsel Ford to find ways to integrate technology into his instruction. Recently, Mr. Belknap and I used Google Hangouts to hold a video conference to discuss how he could...
Unis Students Moving on My Learning Plan
Students at Unis Middle School have begun building their "My Learning Plan" on Mahara. Yesterday, in their advisory period, assistant principal Mr. Daniel Blessing and teacher Mr. Shane Shockey introduced students to the concept on Monday and allowed the students time...
Toward a More Consistently-Enacted Curriculum
First year teacher Ahmad Charara was assigned to teach Computer Applications at Lowrey Middle School this year. Fortunately, over the past several years, the Computer Applications course has been built on iLearn, Dearborn's Moodle courseware--largely due to the work...