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 →

I’ve been quiet. And a large part of it is the following… which probably sounds so silly, but after a tweet by Brian Bennett, I decided I would go ahead and post this bit of rambling :) Let me start with some background. I went to NYU and studied economics in the College of Arts … Continue reading →