Digital Footprints I learned the term ‘digital footprint’ little more than a year ago in conversation with teachers at the 2010 EARCOS Teacher’s Conference at ISM in Manila. Most of the conversation seemed to revolve around stories of digital footprints gone bad. Stories of teachers who had lost jobs or been denied jobs because of stuff posted [...]

Faced with the task of creating a UBD style lesson plan for this CoETaIL course, I had some work and reading to do to figure out both UBD and the ISTE net-s standards, which had to be incorporated into the lesson plan. The UBD lesson plan is great because it encourages lessons built around Bloom’s taxonomy [...]

Teaching with Dilemmas I attended another session with John Zola . This time the topic was Using Dilemmas to teach history and critical thinking skills. The idea is to present students with short narrative of an individual forced to make a difficult decision. The Dilemma Here is the dilemma John used for an example: Helga’s Dilemma (from L.…[Read more]

EARCOS Teacher’s Conference 2011 I had the pleasure of attending a session with Kim Cofino entitled, Making a Lasting Impression. The session focused on how to make good visual presentations using the premises of  Presentation Zen and the Creative Commons resources available predominately through flickr. Teachers have been using visuals to…[Read more]

EARCOS Teacher’s Conference 2011 While I missed Brian Bennett ‘s presentation about his flipped chemistry classroom , I at least had a chance to catch Jeff Utecht’s presentation on ‘finding more time in your classroom’, which covered a number of themes and ideas that fit in with reverse instruction and set me to finding out more. FYI – Jeff [...]

!– p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} –My first session this morning was entitled ‘Active and Engaging Strategies for Social Studies Classrooms’ and led by John Zola. The session focused on moving away from direct instruction and towards student-centred and engaging lessons. The initial brainstorming session on…[Read more]

!– p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} –I sat through a keynote presentation by Michael Thompson this morning at the EARCOS teacher’s Conference 2011. After reading his short bio I realized that I had read his book, Raising Cain , a few years ago and remembered finding his work and conclusions truly remarkable. His…[Read more]