I am excited to be at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities Conference again! This conference is certainly one of my favorites and I credit it with inspiring me to change my classroom forever (see: memories of how my adventures in #flipclass began). I’ll definitely be sharing a lot this week on this blog and through … Continue reading
Since I am at the Building Learning Communities Conference this week, I thought it would be fun to try and use Flipgrid to gather some conference reflections and highlights. #BLC17 Highlights Flipgrid The main purpose of setting this up is: for conference participants to capture their own thoughts based on sessions attended, as a reminder … Continue reading
This week, I had the chance to guest host #Vedchat. The questions I chose revolve around how we are teaching our students to communicate in math class, how we are shifting math mindsets, how we are making learning math more visual, and how Flipgrid can be a tool to help us take our classroom to … Continue reading
One of the questions I most frequently get asked is what tools I use to make my flipped classroom videos. It took me a number of years to perfect my flow, to be honest. One of my major issues was that I use a Mac but in making my math videos, I absolutely needed a … Continue reading
I don’t make genius decks. Most of them are quite simple and ordinary. For me, it’s more about the way that I use Pear Deck itself to engage each student in the classroom, get a sense of individual and group needs, highlight student work anonymously, allow students to ask questions without having to raise their hand, … Continue reading
I recently saw the See How Well You Can Draw All 50 States quiz posted and immediately thought that this idea could be extended into a fun beginning of the year geography challenge using Pear Deck. Let me explain… The challenge: as a class, create a complete sketch of the state borders in the outline of … Continue reading
My principal lead us in a wonderful closing meeting today, and I wanted to take a moment to share the structure of this meeting with other principals to gain inspiration from. In our 2-hour division meeting, Bobby (my principal) lead us in an activity that was so thoughtfully constructed and showcased many best teaching practices. … Continue reading
If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you’ve heard me talk about the Megacity Project that all 9th grade students complete in their Human Geography course. This final cornerstone assessment engages students in an extended study analyzing how megacities are transforming the world. It’s hard to believe that this is our fourth year assigning this … Continue reading
Last week, I wrote a post: #Productivity Hacks – #InboxZero with @Newtonmailapp: First Impressions. In that post, I shared that I had been using Spark for nearly a year, but was running into some stability issues with the App. So, I decided to trial Newton. In this post, I wanted to share some things I love … Continue reading
I am an Inbox Zero kind of person. For years, now, I’ve used this method. How I manage my inbox is largely in thanks to email apps that allow you to “Snooze” emails. Now, I don’t abuse this feature just to get my email down to 0 at the end of the day! But using … Continue reading
