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...
by Amy Gwizdz | Oct 18, 2018 | iBlog, Moodle, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning, Workshop
My last Technology Integration Partnership, or TIP, occurred at Haigh. Teachers Anne Joachim (3rd grade) and Erika Izbicki (4th grade) very graciously agreed to share their classrooms with me so that we could work together to infuse their classes with some new...
by Amy Gwizdz | Sep 13, 2018 | Mahara, Transforming Education, Transforming Learning
As teachers, we know that providing feedback to students is extremely important to their success. Timely, actionable feedback provides students with the necessary tools they need to improve their learning. Now, that lesson is being passed down to our students at...
