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 →

It’s official – Monday 1/30/12 has been declared World Flipped Class Open House Day :) Please take a look at the list of schools participating and think about taking a peak into one of the classrooms opening its doors to you. If you are interested in joining my AP Calculus AB class at Bullis School in Potomac, MD … Continue reading →

I don’t read enough books. I’m addicted to my computer and spend way too many hours sucked into its grips. From news articles, to blogs, to twitter, to email … There is so much stuff out there, it’s so easy to get carried away. I would say I’m a bit addicted to learning (or just sucking in new information … Continue reading →

We took a day in class to make videos to review for the chapter test again! The students love this activity. This time around, I asked students to choose to create a video for the problem they thought most difficult. Their homework assignment for the night before creating the video was to prepare themselves so … Continue reading →

First trimester introduction to programming was amazing! My class was so interested in everything that I taught them. They wanted to learn what I wanted to teach them – and then some. I decided to use Scratch to begin things (for about 2 months). The student had no prior programming experience at all. Most of my students were sophomores. … Continue reading →

It’s exam time at my school. We’re on trimesters – so it’s already time for the dreaded exam :) This year, I have a class set of iPads. One of my main goals for the year is to get students teaching students – and me being more of a facilitator in the classroom rather than … Continue reading →

I must admit, I often don’t blog because I’m scared. I’m a perfectionist – which is something I’m not always proud of. And I’m NOT a writer! Numbers are my strongpoint, not words! I am one of those math people that actually likes writing, though. I know it’s not my strength, but I like to … Continue reading →