Personally, the most satisfying and fulfilling teaching I’ve done all year was with the 2nd grade team of teachers and students in executing our Communities Around the World project. Here is a recap of the 2nd grade Communities Around the World-Global Collaborative Project presented with Timeline JS, a Northwestern University school of Journalism created storytelling […]
Practice What You Preach
Effective teachers model and apply the ISTE Standards for Students (Standards•S) as they design, implement, and assess learning experiences to engage students and improve learning; enrich professional practice; and provide positive models for students, colleagues, and the community. During this course, Teaching, Learning, & Assessment II in the Digital Education Leadership program, I examined the […]
Teachers Promoting & Modeling Digital Citizenship
Making our work PUBLIC leads to connections. At NCCE 2016, the keynote speaker at the Library Summit, Andy Plemmons, spoke about creating authentic learning opportunities to engage our students in “outside-the-classroom-walls” experiences. He shared many of the projects he does with his students that take them on journeys over Skype or Google Hangouts to visit […]
