I started this blog back in 2008. Strangely, I remember sitting in the exact same spot as I am right now and deciding that I should start writing. Come on over to my new digital digs and check it out.

Online Assessments and Their Challenges. This weeks topic has to do with formulating student assessments in an online environment. And Finally, a Word on Formative Assessments. Online Class Without An LMS. This week I was asked if I could come up with a way to host an online class. Using a Learning Management Sy.

This week I saw firsthand the power of collaboration and how my PLC helped me learn, grow, and ultimately make my school and students better.

One of the most prolific names in education because of the UbD model, Wiggins writes often and deeply about different REAL ways teaching impacts students. I really find his posts always get me thinking.

Apps for Language-based Learning Difficulties. Tips, Tricks and Resources. How to re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality. If, after installing Java for OS X 2013-002 and the latest version of Java 7 from Oracle, you want to disable Java 7 and re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality, follow these steps. Tips, Tricks and Resources.

My attempts to move how we teach the past, into the future. History, technology and the classroom. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Farewell to Forward into History. So I will reinvent my blog here. I hope you will follow me there. Thursday, January 26, 2012. 1 A System for distributing and sharing classroom materials materials. 3 A method for making formative and summative assessment paperless.

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A blog collecting my two blogs, Culturally Relevant Education and the SLP 21st Century Technology blogs together into one unstoppable behemoth. Or just a way to make it easier to keep updating my blog. Monday, October 8, 2012. Higher Order Thinking Skills Not Taught? That found little evidence of higher order thinking skills being taught and used in classrooms. Friday, October 5, 2012. Reason 405 why Math Is Cool. A Galaxy Far, Far From Literacy? The republic is a po.