This post is written with a mix of sadness and excitement. It is with sadness that I say goodbye to Edublogs but it is with excitement that I announce I’ve finally taken the plunge and bought my own domain name and am hosting my own blog using BlueHost and WordPress. James Farmer and Sue Waters [...]

Week:  Nov 8-14 Essential Question:  How do the ISB TAIL Standards fit in with content learning and instruction happening in classrooms at ISB? We were asked to analyze the ISB Technology and Information Literacy (TAIL) Standards and determine where they fit in with content learning, age appropriateness, and assessment design. How can teachers and schools [...]

Yes! It’s that time again ……. almost!  You KNOW what I’m talking about ….. it’s that time when you can don your PJs, and suck up all the bandwidth with your own personal learning sessions, anytime, anywhere! It’s almost time for the annual FREE K-12 Online Conference! This years theme is “Bridging the Divide”. And [...]

Our Essential Questions for today’s session: How do the NETs and AASL standards address the needs of a successful learner? Who’s job is it to teach the NETs and AASL standards to students? The NETs (National Education Technology Standards) are from ISTE (International Society Technology in Education) and the AASL standards are from the American [...]

Wow – the end of another course – Course 4 starting next week!!  The purpose of this post is to reflect on the experience of designing this unit/presentation. To be honest in my reflection,  I need to say first that I’ve really struggled keeping up with Course 3.  It’s not that I don’t understand parts [...]

There is nothing more powerful than a digital story.  I love ‘em.  I love the combination of voice, music, and images.  I love the planning and the creativity that goes into telling a digital story and I LOVE the fact the digital stories are much easier to share with family and friends. Daniel H Pink, [...]

How has the explosion of web based video changed the teaching and learning landscape? We had two links to explore for this question.  The first, an article in the NY Times Magazine by Kevin Kelly, Becoming Screen Literate.  He states Screens are everywhere …………… These ever-present screens have created an audience for very short moving [...]

It’s been a couple of years since I last made a screencast.  I find them incredibly useful for tutorials – especially to help students complete tasks at home or during their “downtime” in the classroom. We have a variety of free tools at our finger tips for recording screencasts – which are essentially  “just in [...]

Our CoETaIL leaders (aka: Kim Cofino & Jeff Utecht) have asked us to reflect on a presentation we have created in the past looking at how we would implement new visual presentations techniques to better communicate your message to your audience. One of the best books I bought over the “Summer” break was Garr Reynolds‘ [...]

CoETaIL Blogging Assignment:  Sept 14-20th Use Creative Commons image search to find an appropriate image to use in at least one of the classes you teach. Include this image in a blog post and share how you plan to use it in the classroom. How can visual imagery support your curricular content? Our Enduring Understandings: [...]