Teachers across our district work tirelessly to crush barriers to student learning. Armed with a desire to do whatever it takes, many rightly equip themselves with a tool set that includes technology in order to make themselves extremely effective at...
Now here's a test I'd actually like to take. Recently, Dr. Olga Dub at Woodworth assessed her students on their understanding of the rock cycle. To do this, Dr. Dub created a Moodle quiz complete with quality images in full color, as well as a variety of question...
As I mentioned in Part 1, we can spend a lot of time adding things on to our lessons that make them shine...at least for a while. It's often just glitter. Here today, gone tomorrow--along with all of the time we spent putting it together and learning how it all...
We All Make Mistakes I recently read an article published on Shaelynn Farnsworth's blog, entitled 6 Alternatives to Reading Logs. It piqued my interest because I remember assigning reading logs in my classroom, and how that plan didn't always work out so well. When I...
Ready-Made, Ready to Use Courses Over the past month, I have been busy creating a few courses that teachers could use right now. These courses were designed to be imported into a current iLearn course, so they can be edited to fit individual needs, or they can be...
Over the past two weeks, I have been working with a team of outstanding high school social studies teachers, including Mr. Hussein Beydoun, Mr. Marc Golles, Mr. William Harrison, Mr. Pete Kotsogiannis, Mrs. Katie Meyers, Mr. Jamie Nack, Ms. Fatmeh Rida, and Mrs....