Monthly Archives: December 2009
Brian Elsner’s Digital Narrative
more about “Brian Elsner’s Digital Narrative“, posted with vodpod The process of creating a digital story regarding my beliefs in using technology in education turned out to be pretty enjoyable. While some new technology can be daunting and frustrating, … Continue reading
Marzano Strategies: Similarities & Differences, Homework & Practice, Generating & Testing Hypotheses, and Cues, Questions & Advance Organizers
Lesson: Moodle and Causes of Civil War I created this lesson on using the online discussion board Moodle and the causes of the Civil War partly from a SPU class and partly on my own. The Issues and Advances in … Continue reading
Marzano Strategies: Summarizing & Note Taking, Setting Objectives & Providing Feeback
Lesson: Minoans/Myceneans & Myth This lesson plan regarding the Minoans/Myceneans and the myth allows students to meet the standards S and T in many ways. While a colleague of mine created the original paragraph assignment, I adapted it to be … Continue reading
Marzano Strategies: Reinforcing effort and providing recognition, nonlinguistic representations and cooperative learning
Lesson: Allegory of the Cave The Allegory of the Cave assignment originated a few years ago by another history teacher at Seattle Prep. Through meeting with him and discussing the assignment a couple years ago, I decided it would be … Continue reading
Allowing Students to Create with Technology
This week’s theme of innovation for Issues and Advances in Education Technology provides a great opportunity to focus on the creativity of teachers. While teachers can use technology in the classroom, it will only be effective when coupled with reflection … Continue reading
