Blow Up The Gradebook
If only I had the courage to blow up my grade book. I loath point gathering learning; where the students’ motivation is not to learn but to get the points. I loath grading; where I am the bean counter, and...
Category: 4.3 Reflection on Practice
Candidates analyze and interpret data and artifacts and reflect on the effectiveness of the design, development and implementation of technology-supported instruction and learning to enhance their professional growth.
The Personalization Principal
The Personalization Principal states that using a conversational style rather than a formal style of communication is better for learning and understanding. This makes sense, as a teacher you should always meet your learner where they are. This doesn’t mean...
Project #2: Static Multimedia Instruction
I created a static multimedia Instructional tutorial using Clarify-it. Clarify-it is a program that builds an instructional tutorial based on screenshots. I use screenshots a lot in my instruction but always just use the the Macintosh interface keys to take...
EDTech 504 Reflective Learning Log
I am here at Boise State to learn and further my career as an educator and media content creator. Every reading, every lesson, and every paper I see as an opportunity to grow. The most important thing I learned in...
Reflection on the Blended Learning Competency Framework
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) have helped develop the iNACOL Blended Learning Teacher Competency Framework (available here). In reading through this framework I was struck by a very simple sentence in the Preface, “central to its development was...
My Experiences With a High School Student Chat
The task was to “facilitate a real-time chat activity and reflect on the experience.” So I decided my new physics lesson would utilize a Google Doc shared with everyone in the class, with read/write access for all, and chat and...
Typography
I’m creating graphics for my Game Programming Physics book. I’m using principles of typography to turn important words into graphics that express their own meaning. I write my books for everyone from a smart eight year old to a fifty...
Personal Graphic
In my Graphic Design for Learning class at Boise State the students were asked to create a graphic or series of graphics that shows who they are and what they like to do. I have never got a tattoo, but...
Redefining Grades, Degrees, and Schools with Badges
A grade says so little about what a student has learned in a class. A GPA says even less. And a degree verifies that a person has been successfully navigated a college program of study but it says very little...
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