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JASCD TIOM workshop summary

// April 25th, 2012 // No Comments » // Teaching & learning, Tools

One of my personal goals in facilitating PD is to not do exactly the opposite of what I’m usually trying to advocate for. I hope I was true to myself and my beliefs this past weekend at TIOM. Here’s what happened in the session I led. Three ideas and three tools to support student engagement [...]

Try It On Monday – JASCD Workshop

// April 20th, 2012 // No Comments » // Main stage, Teaching & learning, Tools

  I’m really looking forward to learning and sharing at the JASCD TIOM Workshop on April 21. I’ve had quite some fun preparing to share on a topic I’m most passionate about: The Power of Prediction: Strategies & tools to support student engagement & questioning.   What activates prior knowledge, and engages and motivate us more [...]

Different Kinds of Collaboration

// March 2nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Teaching & learning

Earlier in the year I was asked to trouble shoot for two adults working on a short video presentation. They were first-time users of iMovie and were enjoying discovering what they could achieve as they completed their task. They had each been working on their own laptop, putting together different sections of their movie. They’re [...]

Creating a Culture of Citation

// December 3rd, 2011 // No Comments » // Teaching & learning

We are building a culture of citation – piece by piece. We created this infographic to try to visually organize how complex this topic is for students. Step 1. The following set of recommendations were made by faculty after being considering a case study about how well we are preparing our students for the citation [...]

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