Learning and Laptops

Last week, teachers of ninth grade and tenth grade students were given in their mail boxes a highlighted sheet of their students who are par...

I was sitting in class the other day and had what I like to think of as a Ah-ha moment- or environmentally conscious moment. It was nothing...

I want you to take some time and really reflect on our use of Personal Learning Networks. Think about the following questions and compose a...

As previously posted , I changed the way I did conferences this semester. Instead of concentrating on my students' progress via their g...

My seniors created their own semester long project constructing their own definition of a hero through studying the works of Oedipus Rex (...

I am one of those teachers that usually walks towards conferences dreading the conversation with parents because of the fear that one of the...

I have always been fascinated with the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. I know it sounds dorky but here is a teacher, John Scopes, who chose wi...

Being an honors student all my life, I have gotten used to discussing, and I have loved it since my very first guided discussion in fourth g...

Anna K. Josh TS. Brandon H. Alex E. Lauren E. Alena V. Sean B. Carter W. Carter W. 2 Joey W. Annie S. Berek M. Kelly S. Angelica O. Lauren E...

Last Friday, I had our first group of students present on their personal learning network . I used this rubric to evaluate their presentatio...

So today, I tried something new. I know, me? I created a new blog for my Advanced Placement Chemistry Lab students. I had one group voluntee...

During my first few years at AHS , Maura Moritz and I developed an assignment where we had our freshmen complete personal learning journeys ...

Google is taking over our senior essays! Michele Davis , Lauren Gaffney , and I were interested in approaching our senior college essay uni...

I am a student in Ms. Smith’s 9th grade honors class. This past week we wrote essays comparing 3 film versions of Macbeth. After writing our...

After being introduced to online notations it is my personal opinion that online notation benefits my learning experience in a more progress...

In my opinion, the online text is much more convenient, useful, resourceful, and helpful. The text is more convenient in a way that you don’...

Jessie and I wanted to showcase some of our students' PLN entries . Please take a look: Kelly S. wrote about Karl Fisch's Did You K...

We are on the road to beginning our adventure with students developing their own Personal Learning Network . Karl Fisch wrote about this on...

Jessie and Brian asked our 21c group to respond to the following questions regarding establishing mission/vision: When I leave this school, ...

Last year, I had my freshmen all focus on the question of what matters . I was really glad to have one question on which they could focus a...