by Bob Harrison | Jul 5, 2019 | Transforming Learning
If you are a regular iLearn (Moodle) user, now is a good time to do a little tidying up of your course(s). Now that school is out of session and grades have already been recorded, we recommend you “Reset” your course. Resetting your course may sound...
by Bob Harrison | May 29, 2019 | Transforming Learning
No, literally. It’s a review about stars. And Nuclear energy. In the midst of the black hole of late-May learner attention spans. Physics teachers Heather Bauman and Michelle Hier recently placed their review for the upcoming test on Nuclear Physics and the Life...
by Bob Harrison | May 23, 2019 | Transforming Learning
Over the last couple years, Amy and I have been engaged in close working relationships with teachers across the district as we seek to partner with them to help infuse technology into the learning environments they facilitate. We call these collaborative efforts...
by Bob Harrison | Feb 28, 2019 | Empowered Learner, Moodle, Transforming Learning
Supporting students in their acquisition of new vocabulary is one of the most critical components of our teaching. Teachers who use Moodle (iLearn) have an advantage in this sense. Creating a glossary and setting it to auto-link vocabulary allows a teacher to enter...
by Amy Gwizdz | Jan 16, 2019 | Transforming Learning
This Monday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Kelly Cibasek’s third grade classroom at DuVall Elementary, where her class and Liz Morrison’s class took part in an internet Skype interview with a real, live field biologist. Jean Pennycook is...
by Bob Harrison | Oct 31, 2018 | Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
(This post was originally the second of a two-part series in 2017.) 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...
