Josee… how are you? Your name came up the other day. We were trying to remember what school you were at….

I enjoyed reading your blog, Clair. I am a CoeTail student too, just about to finish my last class at EARCOS. It has been interesting and much more fulfilling than I had expected. While I am not churning out blogs […]

I am glad you suggested that I watch this video. While I appreciate the optimistic view of education, I found myself disagreeing with much of the prediction.
What has been interesting in the education news […]

This is a great dilemma. I say that because it is exactly the thing that matters most … the conversation about rubrics. I don’t know that there is a right way and the fact that you are questioning the peramiters […]

The title of mine was “Good Power Point presentation.. An Oxymoron?

I let go of PowerPoint about five years ago. I would rather use handouts most of the time.

Hi Mary,
I am really impressed with the amount of research and articulation of the topic. As you point out the appropriateness varies by subject, but I also find that it varies by age. You can easily get out of perspective if you get too caught up it the wave.

Impressive post, Mary. It sounds like you are making steady progress in the integration of technology. I firmly believe that it does not have to be earth shattering novelty to be a good teaching moment that includes technology. For an example see my blog.

http://www.coetail.asia/lincjackson/?p=104

I wish I had the time and motivation to put some other examples onto the blog. I love to flip in the sense of reversing the look or the roles. Unfortunately, we are so consumed with tests and benchmarks that creativity gets very little reward from those who carry the most weight. The kids will [...]

Thanks for your comment and the link to your web page. I really enjoy reading and thinking about the implications for our kids. I think you can flip a classroom once a month with ease and make it valuable. Possibly even once a week. But for me I love variety and I love the way [...]

I’m with you, Ben! When I did my first Masters Degree it was mostly learning material without testing my creativity much. This program let’s us grow as we talk and type between ourselves and others on the web. Nice big audience. Lots of thinking and comparing and and rethinking and sharing. The major drawback is [...]

Cool journey Lauren. I would love to see your class someday. I returned to the education field after switching to the non-profit sector (camp director at a camp for kids with special needs) and after a long stint out of the technology role. While some things in ed tech are the same, lots has changed [...]

Thanks for the note Piage. I am with you on the breath holding. I love the moment of teaching when kids say “wow, that’s really cool.” Really good teachers find authentic, meaningful ways to make that happen. It is a lot harder to measure how well teachers do that. The correlation to test scores is [...]

Hi Joe, Thanks for listening. What I love about you is where you take us. I was on a totally different train of thought when I wrote that blog. It was a good and worthy train. And I was hoping someone would read it. When I saw that there was a comment I was intrigued [...]