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 used just as they are right now. Let’s take…
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. Colleen Schumm to create a comprehensive review course on Moodle (iLearn) for the High School Social Studies M-Step. The result…
“My kids can’t do that.” This is one of the most common (and incorrect) statements I hear as a Tech Coach. But this isn’t what I see when I work with students. I witness students, as young as 5, logging into Chromebooks, navigating the internet, and utilizing apps- all with little or no help at all…
As I have sat down with students who are not doing well in my class over the past 17 years, one recurring conversation has gone something like this: “Mr. Harrison, I’m studying for your tests, but I’m still not doing well on them. I don’t know what else to do.” I would reply, “Well, how…
Today, the Tech Coaches had the opportunity to assist at the GSRP’s Parent University held at River Oaks. We helped parents of preschoolers locate and download teacher-approved, interactive apps for use with their children at home. Upon recommendation from Julie Bass and other GSRP teachers, we compiled a list of apps that are teacher-approved and…
Join us for our next Tech Coaches’ Corner December 7th in room 13 at ASC (18700 Audette, Dearborn MI 48124). We will run two sessions, one at 3:00 and the other at 4:00 to accommodate both secondary and elementary teachers. During these sessions, we will Help you create and set parameters for an iLearn (Moodle)…
#GAfE4Littles Recently, I was fortunate enough to stumble across a blog by a very talented elementary teacher, named Christine Pinto. Christine’s site, called #GAfE4Littles, is a treasure trove of Google Apps for Eduation resources geared towards lower el teachers to use with their students. On her site, Christine shares tips on getting your class started on…
Today, students in Joe Shannon’s 2nd hour history class at Fordson generated QR codes for their “My Learning Plan” Pages and submitted them to Mr. Shannon’s iLearn course. Mr. Shannon can now print the QR codes so students can place the code in a location like their planner cover or a poster on the classroom…
It’s really tough to change education when our thinking is, um, well… 80 years behind. At a foundational level, we will always need to know what students know before we can effectively address their needs. The way we do so, given the available resources and technology, has to change. There’s hope. In Dearborn, there are many…
The Tech Coaches have had the pleasure of working alongside an exceptional teacher at William Ford, Ms. Jazel Fakhreddine. Jazel is using her Moodle (iLearn) course to help her ELL students and their families access information in her classroom. By using Google Translate and adding audio files of translations into her Moodle course, students have…
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