After a whirlwind of travel through Vietnam, up to Bangkok and back to KL just in time for an excellent weekend workshop on leadership in international schools, I’m finally back in action! This semester I’ve decided to try to focus on having our students collaborate with as many other students as we can manage (I’m…
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(Taken from Dangerously Irrelevant): Hear ye! Hear ye! All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to… complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward the URL of said survey to all other known education bloggers to ensure decent representation of the education blogosphere; and publicize said survey URL on…
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First the sixth graders started blogging for Ms. N’s social studies class, then they learned how to use wikis for Ms. G’s science class, then the eighth grade English teacher (Mr. R) saw the potential of blogging and got the eighth graders started, then the enthusiasm of Mr. R caught on in seventh grade, so…
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I thought I would share a recent e-mail from our grade 8 English teacher, Mr. R, who just started blogging. Mr. R sent this e-mail to all middle/high school staff just a few days after he started blogging with his students: Well MS/HS teachers it was only a matter of time that the enthusiasm and…
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In addition to middle school IT integration, I also teach discrete IT exploratory classes for all middle school students. These exploratories run for 9 weeks (1 quarter), and are intended to expose students to new ideas in a fun and relaxed way. Due to the nature of the class, we usually only manage one or…
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