I can’t believe it’s over.  I have completed my final Coetail course.  It is a bitter-sweet feeling.  I’m happy about the feeling of accomplishment; the fact that I have grown so much as an educator.  When I […]

How will education as we know it change because of technology?

This question is the requested blog topic of our latest CoETaIL class.  As an educator my first thoughts are to answer this question as an […]

I started this post a few weeks ago, but I’m just getting around to finalizing it.  Which is a good thing because I’ve been able to put some theory into practice since I started the post.  During the weekend of […]

This past weekend I had the opportunity to spend the weekend learning from tech enthusiastic from around Vietnam.  March 2nd & 3rd marked the first ever Vietnam Tech Conference.  This conference was a […]

This is a narrated version of the Prezi that Rachel and I created as our final presentation for Course 5.

Please scroll through the actual Prezi to have access to full videos, links, and other online […]

Hello.  My name is Shane, and I’m a gamer.

The video game industry (aka. interactive entertainment) is basically as old as I am.  The first arcade game, Computer Space, was introduced in 1971.  The […]

For our final project of Course 4, Rachel and I reviewed and modified an existing UBD science unit.  The original unit was created about 2 years ago based on the Delaware Science Curriculum which SSIS adopted […]

Every post so far from Course 4 seems to start with the same thoughts.  I am continually reflecting on my new role as a “coach.”  It is just such a different role; I have to really think about its connection to […]

In my new role as a math/science coach I see endless opportunities to have positive impacts on the student learning that takes place at my school.  In math, most of the data shows that we have a population of […]

We are now four weeks into the 2012-13 school year, and I am currently defining myself in a new professional role.  I’ve been a 5th grade classroom teacher for the past 13 years in three different schools; the […]

Course 3 Reflection

About two years ago I took some online tech related courses at the University of Wisconsin.  Florida DOE requires teachers to take 6 credit hours every 5 years in order to keep a current […]

Now if your speaking Japanese to me, I could change my mind.  In Japanese the term “pecha kucha” roughly translated to English means “chit-chat,” but in the tech world it is a 20 slide presentation where each […]

This project was rushed.  I had less than a week to come up with a plan and get it done.  One thing I’ve realized during this course is that it is much more fun and rewarding if I include my students in my […]

I really love it when Coetail assignments and projects fit perfectly into what I am doing as a teacher in the classroom.  Completing a project because it’s an assignment is just extra work that takes away from […]

These things are pretty cool!  However, they are not new.  The word “infographic” is consistently underlined in red as not being recognized as an actual word in both Wordpress and MSWord.  So, it is a fairly new […]