I have been teaching transformational geometry using Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP) since 1994. I have used graphing calculators, Fathom and GSP to enhance how I teach in my classroom by using technology to […]

I manage my classes using 1 to 1 laptops through a mixture of movement and motivation. I have had more luck using low or no tech techniques to make sure students are on task whether they are using paper and […]

This year I noticed that my alma mater, U. C. Berkeley, had joined the MOOC movement by joining edX to offer online courses in computer science. The news reminded me of my first physics course at “Bezerkeley” […]

Last year I first heard about the flipped classroom from our school’s chemistry teacher who was using Moodle to post lecture videos based on powerpoint slides for his students to watch outside of class. […]

Since the start of course 5  three weeks ago, I have had a lot to think about in terms of using technology in math classes. During the first days of the course I was attending the Computer Based Mathematics […]

3 minutes of video only took 7 hours to create! I knew I wanted to create a movie in the style of Dan Meyer’s 3 acts videos on Vimeo. I also knew I had to teach 3D geometry in an upcoming Math Studies class so […]

Sometimes lucky coincidences happen one after the other. In this case I needed to create a presentation for the Eastern Europe FIRST® Tech Challenge robotics competition. The teams had been invited, the press had […]

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Serendipity is wonderful …. The first lesson I need to teach next week is the Law of Sines in my Math Studies class and I also need a second blog post about using creative commons […]

As the confused math student once said the only constant is change. It is the start of a new school year and the start of a new COETAIL course. FIRST has released a new game entitled RING IT UP! for this […]

Well I have finally got around to posting a blog on the new technology course I am currently attending at the Principal’s Training Center in London. We are going through many topics including Web 2.0, flipped […]

As was discussed in the May 1st COETAIL Big Marker session , the American International School of Bucharest (AISB) will be implementing a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program as the school board did not […]

Janet Graham and Ted Hodgson discovered back in 2004 that encouraging students to chat online about mathematics in the classroom increased their understanding of mathematics vocabulary which they described in […]

The FIRST World Championships in robotics is now over and I am now back in Bucharest. For 4 days in St Louis, over 12,000 students from 32 different countries built, programmed and competed with robots that […]