If you asked me five months ago, when I was finishing my Master of Education thesis at the Unversity of LaVerne, what the best way for teachers to share homework with students, I would have said “create a personal website and update it weekly.”
In fact, I wrote my thesis about using Contribute to help a [...]
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On creating this blog
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Another day in Monterey
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I attended a session on using “Brain Aces”, which are short interruptive games used to keep students engaged in a lesson. The games themselves were crude, but the presenter flashed on an image that caught my eye: a 3-D pavement drawing done by Julian Beevers, an English muralist.
Check out this amazing artist in this stop-motion [...]
Monterey musings
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged authentic publishing, digital natives, Monterey Bay on December 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am attending the Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants technology conference in Monterey, CA this weekend.
I am sitting in a session at on creating WordPress blogs and my mind is running wild with ideas I can use to make my lessons more innovative and interesting.
Particularly, I am hoping to give students a way to authentically publish [...]