This summer, I’ve found it hard to balance all the awesome inflow of information with making enough time to bring ideas to life, create, and play. It’s easy to get sucked into twitter and reading blogs. My PLN has grown and it’s now an amazing source of inspiration and learning for me. It’s fabulous and … Continue reading →

I am a perfectionist, to an unhealthy degree in fact. Yes, my perfectionism and discipline make me a great worker and employee… and I get a lot of quality work done. But perfectionism is also my greatest enemy. Why do I bring this up? Google tools play a huge place in the future of education, … Continue reading →

I wanted to do a quick post on an awesome tool that I learned about at ISTE, called FluidMath. FluidMath is award-winning educational software that enables teachers and students to easily create, solve, graph and animate math and physics problems all in their own hand-writing on the screen of a Tablet PC or Interactive Whiteboard. … Continue reading →

I just read Kris Shaffer’s post on his blog: Fail Better. (Please read now so the rest of my post will make sense :)). This idea of supported failure is really important to me… I actually wrote a whole, long post about it but never ended up posting because it became too personal. Maybe one … Continue reading →

I just wanted to capture two messages that I recently received. As teachers, we all know there is no greater reward than a thank you note. A note that I found in my school mailbox after school had ended and grades were already in. A comment that I received on my screencast.com account Sums up … Continue reading →

I just left the ISTE conference and am sitting at the airport waiting for my flight. This was my first year going to the conference. I went with the TechSmith team, meaning that I did multiple presentations at their booth. For full disclosure, they have never paid me to do presentations or use their product. However, they did … Continue reading →

After Valerie Strauss’ article in The Washington Post featuring my class: “The Flip: Turning a classroom upside down”, I got a lot of positive tweets, emails, facebook messages, etc! And I also got quite a few questions from interested teachers who weren’t quite sure where to begin… I wanted to share a bit of an … Continue reading →

I had the opportunity to write a 2-part guest post for The Daily Riff reflecting on my flipped AP Calculus classroom. I had just wrapped up a student satisfaction survey, so I decided to focus on: 1. my thoughts and 2. the student feedback. Part 1: Reflecting on the Flipped Class through Student Feedback Part 2: … Continue reading →

I’m kind of beaming with pride as a write this post. Part of it is definitely that end-of-the-year reminiscing – it’s been a pretty awesome year in my classroom. The AP Calculus Exam happened and I lost all of my seniors (they finish 3 weeks before the rest), and I thought it would be difficult … Continue reading →

In my AP Calculus AB class, for final projects, I had students create video solutions to past free response questions. For about a month, I have students review for the AP Exam — doing practice multiple choice questions and solving past free response questions. I thought that it would be nice for my current students … Continue reading →