Learning and Laptops

Serendipity:  ser·en·dip·i·ty /ˌserənˈdipitē/ Noun: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial...

My kids decided they needed to create an award in recognition of the best banned book movie trailer for our Banned Book assignment .  So, th...

About a month ago, Karl Fisch sent along a tweet from a librarian in Grand Junction, Becky Johnson .  Becky was creating QR codes to ...

My all boys’ class has been writing up a storm this semester with our work on PLNs .   We have moved from the first 6 weeks of each writin...

For the past four years, I have had my classes write their versions of National Public Radio’s “This I Believe ” segment. I was introduced ...

Another poignant post by Karl Fisch came to be quite useful in my all boys’ class . We are transitioning this week from simply writing o...

Every year, I ask Karl for focused goals regarding areas I can improve in my teaching and learning. This year, as with all years, he didn...

Towards the end of second semester, our ninth grade Honors students were challenged to deliver their own TED talk based upon a subject th...