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: [...]

After a very long (self-imposed) break from blogging, the start of Course 3 of our CoETaIL.asia group means I’m back in the saddle again! Our first blog post requires to us to reflect on implementation of ideas learned during the past two courses.  There’s are the essential questions: What have you tried/are trying in your [...]

Course 2:  April 20-26 Essential Questions Are we preparing students for a world of Mass Collaboration? How do we prepare students for a world of Mass Collaboration? Does ISBs AUP take this issue into account? As we made our way through looking at a wealth of pre-prepared links I began to wonder whether the majority [...]

April 13-19′s essential question for CoETaIL.Asia Enduring Understanding: The communication tools that exist today are powerful mediums to help spread positive change and global awareness. So what was the first thing I did? Asked my PLN (Personal Learning Network) of course! First I asked my twitter network: Then I asked my Facebook network: And that [...]

Cyberbullying is no different to offline bullying.  Bullying is bullying is bullying.  Some may argue that it (cyberbullying) is worse as there is an element of anonymity about it and emotional detachment at the time of the bullying that does not bode well for stirring empathy. Is cyberbullying prevalent at ISB?  Well, we honestly don’t [...]