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mmorse wrote a new post, Reflecting on my COETAIL experience, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 1 week, 6 days ago
I have had time to reflect about my experience with the COETAIL course. If anything, the most significant benefit I got from the class was in how it helped me to see how a teacher can redefine their lessons and […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, , on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Over the past year, there has been a common theme to the material we have been reading and discussing in my English class. Whether looking at the dystopian visions of Orwell’s 1984, or the relationship between […]
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mmorse commented on the post, Teachers are born, not made, on the site Mendy's Blog 2 weeks, 4 days ago
I would agree with the writer on most of her points, but I am not sure everyone who turns out to be an effective educator was born to teach. Some of us come to the profession unintentionally, with no initial […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, The Death of Powerpoint, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 weeks, 4 days ago
The above video is hilarious, but it does bring about a good point. Upon reflection I have seen through this course that technology does not equal Powerpoint. Unfortunately, there are still teachers out […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 26 February – Managing Laptop Use in the Classroom, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 months, 3 weeks ago
In past blog posts, I have written about the use of laptops before in the classroom, but I don’t see that in the future they will be the devices of choice for students. At this point, very few of our students use […]
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mmorse commented on the post, Classroom Devices: Less noticeable?, on the site Full Court Press 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I am rather strict when it comes to mobile devices, but as I have students take notes during the class, rather than put information on the board, they usually don’t ask me about using their phones for taking […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 26 February – Final Project 4 UBD Proposal, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Unit Proposal: The Perks of Being a Wallflower UnitI currently teach English Skills 12 to students with varying learning disabilities or challenges. Their weakest areas are in reading and research, along […]
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mmorse commented on the post, Imagination!, on the site On the go! 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Great post. My daughter and her friends have gotten into Minecraft, and seeing the sophistication of gameplay and how her ability to work within the virtual world has expanded has both been impressive for me but […]
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mmorse commented on the post, Goodbye SmartBoard… Hello Apple TV, on the site Exploring Digital Media in Education 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Was this a school-wide initiative or did you decide to jump in and do it for your classroom only. Our school is nowhere near where you seem to be, and part of seems to related to connectivity but also the […]
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mmorse commented on the post, UbD Unit, on the site Perspectives 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I looked over your Unit, and noted your use of Diigo.com for one of your activities. I attended a seminar/training session on using it in the classroom, but I came away with a bit of uncertainty was to how I […]
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mmorse commented on the post, step away from the computer, on the site view, pause, resume 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh, here is the link to the above Jack White Record Day blurb. The video is pretty funny if you stick around to watching it…
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mmorse commented on the post, step away from the computer, on the site view, pause, resume 2 months, 3 weeks ago
excellent thoughtful post…reminded me of this Record Day Store promotion that I read the other day. In it the musician Jack White talks about (of course) music and going to a record store for the visceral […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 21 February – The Future Classroom – What will it be like?, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The classroom of the future is one that will originate almost entirely from ‘the cloud’. Content and materials will largely be imparted electronically. Whether the classroom itself is ‘virtual’ may not even be at […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 20 February – Motivating Students to Learn in the 21st Century Classroom, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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mmorse wrote a new post, 20 February – Reverse Instruction, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 2 months, 3 weeks ago
First of all, it has been a long while since I posted on this blog and we are coming down to the wire for finishing Course 4. My apologies then for the long absence, but life has been a bit strange over the past […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 15 December – The Increasingly Irrelevance of Application[s], on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 5 months ago
After reading “What difference might an ‘S’ make?”, thoughts came to mind of how students these days interact with the devices that are available to them. The term ‘applications’, as Dave Warlock points out, […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 16 December – On Connecticut, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 5 months ago
Yesterday morning, I was going to write about ISTE Standards when I began putting together this post, but then I saw the news about the shootings in Connecticut (when I went to my email at aol.com) and could not […] -
mmorse wrote a new post, 2 November – Course 3 Final Project Video – My Trip to the Market, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Here is the final video project for Course 3. The music is by me (so no copyright issues) and I used iMovie for editing the video. Interesting experience, and I am glad I did it since now I feel fairly […]
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mmorse wrote a new post, 30 October – Final Project UBD, on the site The Dude Abides in Thailand 6 months, 3 weeks ago
We are in the midst of UBD training and thus a lot of this is new to me. However, we have been as a department (I work as a learning support teacher) putting together a curriculum for study skills, which all […]
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mmorse commented on the post, Incorporation and attribution (or stop the agony and simply begin), on the site Mrs Simon says… 7 months ago
I just watched the movie version of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”, which I believe was written by the same guy who has mixed/mashed classical literature with more modern horror themes (including the two books […]
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