I’ve experimented with my teaching strategies a lot this year. In fact, I’ve experimented more this year than I’ve ever experimented before. This could be because I’m tired of teaching certain things the way I’ve always taught them, but I think it has more to do with my PLN. I’ve gotten a lot of really great ideas and learned so
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Since my post about backchanneling and peer editing, I’ve had to chance to try out backchanneling a little more. I still have a ton to learn, but here are some of my preliminary thoughts. The first class I tried backchanneling with, it went really well. The students were peer editing some comics they had made and I was in shock.
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Last week I did something I had never done before: volunteered to do some after school professional development. Nobody asked me to do it, but I did it. It didn’t go exactly as I planned, but it wasn’t bad either. Naturally the scenario where nobody came was going through my head. That didn’t happen. But the other scenario where my
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We’ve just finished our first trimester of the year at our school. So, with all the finals, grading, and writing comments for report cards, I must have been skimping a little bit in planning my classes. Looking around the classroom at the bored faces of some students and distracted by some other off-task students, I was reminded how easy it
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First off, thank you very much for taking a look at my new blog. I’m not an expert on educational technology or blogging by any means. I’m a teacher reflecting on his classroom practices and sharing any useful information gleaned from those reflections. I hope to find and share ways to integrate technology into curriculum that are straightforward and versatile.
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