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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re involved in Silvia Tolisano’s short, simple yet so powerful Skype project AroundTheWorldwith80Schools.  In just two short weeks we have connected with seven different classrooms in four parts of the world.  And we’re not stopping there!  By the end of our school year, I hope to share with you that we managed to connect right [...]

This week our COETAIL course directs our attention to three readings to digest and reflect upon. Reading #1:  [New] Bloom’s Taxonomy Digitally by Andrew Churches (Tech & Learning) Bloom’s Taxonomy is nothing new.  What I particularly like about the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and it’s direct impact upon my own teaching practise is the way learning [...]

This week we’ve been directed to read Will Richardson’s article World Without Walls:  Learning Well With Others and Distrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future by Dr. Clayton Christensen as we begin to look more closing at Personal Learning Networks. Will Richardson writes The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of [...]

As I reflect on our first meeting of the SuNY course ISB Certificate in Communication Technology and Information Literacy,  I am thinking about what it means to be a 21st Century Educator. Andrew Churches, author of an extremely useful and informative wiki entitled Educational Origami has a graphic showing the Characteristics of a 21st Century [...]

As part of our Certificate of Educational technology & Information Literacy Course 1 we have been asked to write a post about our hopes for this course. I hope to extend skills that will enable me to successfully guide my students, both now and in the future, on their learning journey through the 21st Century. [...]