This year, scores of teachers in Dearborn have begun to move their assessments online, mainly to Moodle (iLearn). This has been to the benefit of students, as they experience tests in formats that resemble that of the high-stakes standardized tests they’ll encounter. It can also provide them with more timely feedback and opportunities for alternative methods…
Over the past several years, Edsel Ford teacher Cheri Katzman has been working to revolutionize learning in her French classes by integrating technology into nearly everything she and her students do. Students in Madame Katzman’s classes use Chromebooks and Google Apps for Education (GAFE) on a regular basis. Google Drive is her mode of preference for distributing, collecting, and…
Teachers in buildings across the district are integrating technology in a variety of ways. Here’s a quick look at how one building — Stout Middle School — is using technology to create emerging opportunities for students: Leon Vietinghoff’s Blog. If you haven’t checked it out, you need to! Mr. Vietinghoff is using his iBlog as a tool for teaching and learning, communicating effectively…
By now, you have (hopefully) heard about our upcoming Coaches’ Corner session on Moodle (iLearn) quizzes. If you are interested in joining our session and would like to be an active participant from the comfort of your own classroom, then sign up today! We have spots left in both sessions, but they are filling up fast! Don’t wait! Loading……
“Teachers often view technology glitches as reasons to stop planned lessons. Yet when glitches happen in a lesson without technology, teachers rarely give up. No activity or computer experience is so vital to one day’s learning that it cannot be adjusted or accomplished at a another time. Modeling flexibility and problem solving will teach students…
Today, students in Diane Pas and Teresa Masiarczyk’s science classes at Smith began working on their Mahara ePortfolio pages for their Earth Science unit. Ms. Pas & Ms. Masiarczyk began by introducing students to Mahara with a Google Doc posted on their Google Classroom. Students worked through the steps to create their pages and upload a…
Because Moodle is the most versatile tool available in allowing teachers to make resources available and to allow students to interact with the content digitally, many teachers are now using Moodle (iLearn) as their online launch pad. One teacher who is maximizing the capabilities of Moodle is Stout 7th Grade Science teacher Pete Bloye. Mr. Bloye has…
What is Close Reading? The latest strategy in reading comprehension is called “Close reading,” or annotating text. The idea is that students read a selection with a pen, making annotations (notes) to help them better understand the text. Because students are expected to write ON the text, making copies of the text has been the norm,…
Last week, I met with language arts teachers Lindsay Diem and Susan Basom-Juchau to talk about ideas for integrating technology into their upcoming MAISA unit. Since Diem and Basom-Juchau are already utilizing Google Classroom with their students, we talked about how to best use the capabilities of Google Classroom to transform what they’re doing for…
During the current school year, over 40 teachers have begun to use, or ramped-up their use of Moodle (what Dearborn calls iLearn) in their classroom. One of these teachers is Nicole Laramee, science and social studies teacher at Woodworth Middle School. Ms. Laramee has used iLearn (Moodle) for many things at this point, most notably…
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