The movie clip that I chose to “read” was “Judge’s Game” from Rounders. This is a movie that I knew nothing about before this week and know only a little more about now. The Judge’s Game scene starts with six older men playing cards.…
Congratulations for Truth
Have you read Verena Roberts post yet? Did you congratulate her on receiving the iNACOL Innovative Practice award . You know she acknowledges it is because “of all of you out there who supported and helped facilitate open classroom projects over the last year!”…
The Truth About Being an Innovator – iNACOL Innovative Blended and Online Practice Award – 2013
Retrieved from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artjonak/6250513028/
So – we did it! I received the iNACOL Innovative Practice award on behalf of all of you out there who supported and helped facilitate open classroom projects over the last year! It happened because of all of you who took the opportunity to innovate and think outside the box! …
It’s not you…it’s me (a momentary reflection on instructional design for distance learning)
I am currently designing instruction for which I will not be present. That’s really hard for me.
It’s so weird. It’s like brushing my teeth with my left hand: doing a task I am very familiar with in a very unfamiliar way. …
Connecting Through Haikudeck
Data Security and Boundaries
Data security is a problem for everyone, even for colleges and universities, as a recent post in The Chronicle suggests. Paul Voosen quotes Daniel K. Nelson, director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Office of Human Research Ethics, the team supposedly in charge on protecting sensitive data, “We’re really just all waking up as a community to both the power and challenges of dealing with this.”…
MadLibs Using Autocrat in Google Forms/Spreadsheets
A fellow #GTACHI, Jessica Johnston, has created a really great way to show off the capaiblity of Autocrat (the google spreadsheet script for mail merging to a template) in the form of a mad lib. Go and check it out if you are so inclined.…
DCTS Blast
A Blast from the Past
This is a collection of links that showcases students who participate in community outreach and student activities. The information is featured in the school’s monthly newsletter, DCTS Blast.
http://www.dcts.org/documents/October2013Blast.pdf
- New teacher feature
http://www.dcts.org/documents/November2013Blast.pdf
- DECA MDA check presentation
- Cabela’s Field Trip
- Penn State Entrepreneurship Conference
Feeling Spooky?? Here’s a mystery lesson I teach with 4th and 5th graders
It is all about the learning…
I expected to see Genius Hour in big letters, as this certainly is a passion of mine.