(cross-posted from K12 Open Ed) Moodle glossaries are great, and there are so many ways to use them. Content can include everything from vocabulary to FAQs to fact-of-the-day to picture story starters. You can build them yourself as a teacher
The engagement gap: listening to student voices
“Engaging the Voices of Students: A Report on the 2007 & 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement” from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University is an important piece of research that I think everyone in
New open educational resources project
Many of you know that I have gotten very involved in the area of open educational resources (OER) as a tool for differentiating instruction. If you aren’t familiar, OER are materials used for teaching and learning that are free from
ISTE is asking for input on next year’s keynote
ISTE 2010 (formerly NECC) is using a collaborative process to choose the keynote topic for next year’s conference. Imagine my delight at seeing Open Educational Resources (OER) near the top of the list! For those of you who don’t know
How is your learning going?
I’ve been brainstorming ideas for applying Web 2.0 technologies to formative assessment. Here is a useful, easy-to-implement idea: My thought is to use this after each major instructional block of content, which depending on the class and the day, could
Tech basic videos are up!
The first eleven Tech Basics videos are now up! These are intended for teachers who struggle with some of the basic Windows OS skills that can help make them more productive. Topics include things like right-clicking, screen captures, file management,
Could mobile tech finally be positioned to replace textbooks?
On this blog and elsewhere, I have talked extensively about the need to differentiate instruction, the inefficacy of textbooks in doing that, and the potential of mobile technology to make a huge difference. Recently, the Indiana State Board of Education
TeacherTube Mashup
(cross-posted form Karen’s Mashups) Below is one of my favorite mashups of all time — a compilation of different clips from TeacherTube. If you aren’t familiar with TeacherTube, it’s a video sharing service for educators that has all kinds of
Throwing out the textbooks
I presented a keynote a couple weeks ago on Open Education. In talking about the reasons for open ed, I make the following points: We must differentiate instruction if we are going to engage and reach students who have increasingly
Take control of your own learning
Over the last year or so, I have been working on methods to differentiate professional development that I facilitate. Some things have worked better than others, and I’m refining my methods. A lot of the impetus is on the participants,