Last school year, I started researching various Learning Management Systems to see which one might be best for our school to use. After playing with a bunch, I narrowed down my top two favorites: Haiku LMS and Canvas. If you’re interested in taking a look at my original blog posts, they can be found: Canvas … Continue reading →

Today, I had the opportunity to be part of a panel at the Inter-County Broadband Network Community Anchor Symposium focused on the ICBN and Education (namely how the bandwidth made available by the ICBN project will impact K-12 and higher education). Dr. Darla Strouse, Executive Director for the Office of Partnerships and Development at the Maryland … Continue reading →

When I presented at the CoSN conference, my mom and I were asked to do an interview on flipping the math classroom. Some background – I started flipping my AP Calculus AB class two years ago. Last year, I saw really good success and persuaded my mom (also a math teacher) to try it out … Continue reading →

Continuing on our project in social media, my class watched Adam Savage’s TED-Ed talk: “How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries” In this activity, we started talking about: What is Curation? I found the following video helpful in getting the conversation flowing and ideas across. Savage’s video had some pretty high-level concepts in it – so … Continue reading →

TED-Ed is TED’s newest initiative and the first phase was launched earlier this week (see my storify story). I work with a group of 9-12th grade students (very mixed skill level) and decided to do a unit focusing on social media. After the launch of TED-Ed, I got to thinking that maybe I could tie … Continue reading →

CoSN Conference 2012 Reimagine Learning March 5-7, 2012 Omni Shoreham | Washington, DC I was invited to speak at the CoSN 2012 conference for their “Great Ideas Session – Visions of Transforming Education.” My session: What happens when learning is turned on its head? I spoke about how and why I started implementing the flipped … Continue reading →

I had the inspiring, awesome, amazing experience to be invited out to the TEDActive conference! This week has been one of the most incredible experiences I’ve had in my life (so far). I can’t even begin to put in words what I’m feeling. I have never had such a busy week every — or met more … Continue reading →