A few months ago Julie Lindsay inadvertently started a new meme about a day in the life of a global educator. Silvia Tosolino joined in and tagged me way back when, and somehow, I never found time to post. But, lately I’ve been thinking about that meme… I have a pretty good idea of what…
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I’ve had a lot of success this year utilizing the Understanding by Design model for my technology integration planning, but I have one more secret weapon: the MYP Technology Design Cycle. Before I moved to Malaysia I spent five years teaching at Munich International School in Germany, which is a full IB school – from…
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I love reading about all the successes other edubloggers are having. I love reading posts that confirm what I have been thinking and that discuss issues that have been on my mind. But how do we take the momentum and the successes of the education blogosphere and bring it to the institution where we spend…
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A few weeks ago, Kelly Christopherson posted an interesting thread, Walking the Talk, on the Classroom 2.0 Ning forums asking whether the teachers who promote web 2.0 tools are actually using the tools themselves. My response was: Absolutely! Doing these type of things myself is the only way that I can truly understand how they…
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I’ve done a lot of technology integration projects over the last seven years, but this year I started doing things a little differently. I realized that technology integration is about more than just finding a way to embed technology into a project, it’s about planning an authentic assessment task which utilizes technology in a meaningful…
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