Posts Tagged ‘ learning ’

0Still creating ‘word walls’ around your classroom?  Good for you – that’s exactly what needs to be done to create constant and progressive exposure to vocabulary.  Here are some examples of our evolving digital forms of word walls and vocabulary building tools.  Firstly, here’s an animated/spoken word wall that was built on visuals that...
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0From Clark and Salomon (1986): General media comparisons and studies pertaining to their overall instructional impact have yielded little that warrants optimism. Even in the few cases where dramatic changes in achievement or ability were found to result from the introduction of a medium such as television, . . . it was not the...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning Over the last two years I’ve been fortunate to attend quite a few conferences (thanks to my wonderfully supportive admin at ISB). One of the things I’ve noticed at these conferences is that the attendees seem to be almost the same group of people over and over again, which I...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending, and presenting at, the Apple Global Leadership Summit in Hong Kong. I knew it was going to be great after presenting at the Think Ahead Roadshow here in Bangkok in February, but I don’t think I realized just how great it was...
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0A couple days ago I shared how the 1st grade here at ISB is creating Portfolio’s for students using iPhoto. They are simple Quicktime movies that kids can start and stop with their parents as they talk about their learning. This is a great solution for teachers in primary grades who have a digital...
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0Today I’ve been working with the first grade team preparing to created their e-portfolios for the kids. We started off the year talking about how we could organize the photos and movies that would be taken over the year so that when it came to this stage of the process it would be as quick...
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1 I tried backchannel chat for the first time during keynote addresses at the EARCOS Teachers Conference: ETC09. What is Backchannel Chat? It’s like note-taking at a lecture, but notes are shared with anyone who has the URL. They might be people in the room with you, but they could also be anywhere in the...
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0Whether you work in a 1:1 laptop or computer lab centered school, teachers often use remote desktop software to access the desktops of their students’ computers to make sure they are on task. Teachers also use remote desktop in a more constructive manner to support the learning process. Let’s say time is tight and you...
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0Cross posted on Always Learning Waaay back in September, I read the book Presentation Zen, thanks to Jeff (who insisted I read it before designing my presentations for Learning 2.008). Since then I’ve created and delivered six presentations. After each one, I received compliments about the style and lots of questions about how I found the...
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0I’ve spend the past week doing a lot of blog reading. With 40+ students taking the grad course here at ISB and another 8 that I’m teaching for PSU makes for a lot of blog reading in a week. I predicted this year would be about building value with these tools and that I...
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0I thought I had a fairly good grip on encouraging students to create higher-order connections to vocabulary through both vocab visualisations that we create in class, and through creating hyperlinked connections to definitions of vocab on my teacher blog.  However, this week my Principal, Dr. Ron Roukema, informed me of some great work that’s...
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