Since the beginning of formal education, instructors the world over have struggled with how to get their students to dig deeper, reach farther, and push themselves beyond mere adequacy. Teachers, too, are pushed to challenge ourselves to be more than just average, to do more than just accept the status quo. We instructors are to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Teaching’
October 1, 2009
The Value of Digital Teaching…
My online teaching partner and I strongly believe what The Intrepid Teacher has come to realize. To that end, we even opened our book with 26 reasons (supported by research) that online learning successfully reaches beyond the traditional classroom:
September 7, 2009
Where do you Work when you Teach Online?
Last year a commercial about a businessman who works with his customers both virtually and face-to-face across America got me thinking. The commercial’s salesman said he worked from a place called something like “Newcaliwisdakota”. According to the ad, he needed a network that kept up with the demands of his job. This network was the [...]
September 5, 2009
PLN, PLC, CoP – An Edtech Rose by Any other Name…
On a recent stroll through the edtech blogosphere, I stumbled upon a new acronym. Well, it was new to me. And, as 20 year veteran teacher, that doesn’t happen very often anymore. The acronym? PLN. First I saw it in a Twitter post, then in one blog post, then another. Based on the context clues, [...]
September 3, 2009
Dusting off my keyboard
It has been a while. By the looks of the dust and cobwebs around here, a very long while, since I have taken the time to get this blog rolling again. I have been busy – I sent my youngest child off to college, co-authored a book on teaching online (more about that in a [...]
August 16, 2009
SupportBlogging
From the SupportBlogging Wiki educational website:
Uses for Blogging in Education
Teacher Communication
Teachers will often start a blog for providing communication to students, parents, or other teachers. Sometimes this is just the posting of homework or other assignments in one easy-to-find location. Other times this can be a richer description of the things taking place in the [...]
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