Creating a Culture of Sharing, Caring and Mastery Abstract My goal as a facilitator of educational experiences is focused on creating a sharing culture where students not only take responsibility for their own educational pace […]
Mastery
Flipped Mastery Classes I’m finishing up my 4th semester of applying a flipped classroom and with some encouragement from my peers I decided to “take it to the next level” this semester. Jonathan Bergmann and […]
Twitter for Teachers
Are you on Twitter? I’ve been using Twitter for over five years apparently but my use has picked up significantly in the last year. Twiage.com tells me my “Twitter age” to the day as seen […]
Schoology First Impressions
Surprised by Schoology As mentioned last week, I’ve moved to Schoology as my LMS (Learning Management System) for my courses this semester. I am teaching a total of four groups across three separate courses which […]
Engage Students with Facebook
Go where they are: Facebook A long time ago I was able to engage my students via newsgroups (nntp) or the forums in Moodle or Blackboard. Lately getting students to post on the forums in […]
Sign My Syllabus
Did you read the syllabus? Often the syllabus for courses is an exercise in formality of creating a document that we are required to make and ensure students are aware of its existence. Very rarely […]
Start of a New Year
Start me Up This is the first year in a long time that my main academic/work goal has changed. I’ve officially abandoned finishing my Ph.D. and am continuing to focus on other projects.
Smile for your Students
Back to Engagement I wrote about engagement before and how important that is. In my experience I have had the best success in reaching my shy students by getting to know them at some personal […]
Engage Your Students
This afternoon I received an email from one of my students of the typical “I am really embarrassed to ask you and this is probably a dumb question” type. You know the type of question, […]
