Today, I had an unexpected and quite interesting conversation about grades, including how we evaluate participation, and so I wanted to record some ideas here for further discussion. In the past, while teaching both as a TA and in my first few years at the secondary level, I’ve always built a participation component into my overall schema.…
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I am so grateful for all the gifts that ETMOOC has given me. As I reflect upon the year I think about all the wonderful people I have met and the things we have shared.
The invite :
My first ETMOOC POST a year ago
I am a life long learner and willing to take risks and here I am signing up for #etmooc.…
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As I begin my summer reading binge, I’ve been trying to balance my consumption of pro-technology materials to include anything that offers alternative and/or critical views of the new (e.g. tech.-focused) directions in education. Much like I’ve argued with questions of the value of foreign language, I think it’s healthy to face and even embrace criticism, since it helps us to build a fuller understand of why we do certain things in certain ways through reflection, lest our ideas become dogmatic or myopic.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve had a great time participating in Twitter chats like “CAedchat“, with hashtag #caedchat, which happens Sunday evenings at 8pm PST and provides a forum for CA teachers to discuss current topics in education and pedagogy. As far as I know, there exists no current live chat devoted to Latin and the ancient world, and so capitalizing on the popularity of Twitter chats like this one (cf.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I finally picked up a Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which I’ve had my eye on since I had the chance to work with one at the Boulder GAFE Summit last August (cf. my notes taken on a Chromebook). I’m a big fan of Google Apps and have transitioned the majority of my work into my Drive account, so it’s certainly a sensible purchase.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Thanks to a bit of extra free time over spring break, I finally had some time to read Daniel Pink’s Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, since I’ve been lately thinking about the sometimes tenuous relationship that faculty have with professional development (PD. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Connecting with educational leaders around the world is so incredibly easy via Twitter. I love how many opportunities there are to have conversations about literally any topic, at any time of day or night. Whether I’ve “lurked” in chat sessions … Continue reading 
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Seymour Papert’s “Gears of My Childhood”, the foreword to his book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, serves as our first LCL activity to share. Briefly, Papert reflects back on his love of mechanical gears, viewing them as an adaptive model onto which he was able to overlay new and potentially difficult concepts in a familiar way.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Our second session assignments for the MIT Medial Labs Learning Creative Learning MOOC is to, in part, read through some of +Joichi Ito‘s blog posts on learning and respond with our own thoughts about what we found most surprising or interesting, and offer disagreements or questions, should we have any. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Bolchazy-Carducci is one of the more prolific publishers of Classical texts, and they’ve done a lot of great work for Greek and Latin teachers that has helped to make our jobs easier. In their February eLitterae newsletter, Sherwin Little’s Little’s Bits column “A Latin teacher wears many hats…” addresses the complexities of a Latin teacher’s job, which often requires us to serve in part as a “public relations specialist” to help keep our numbers strong. …
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