The secret to VLACS’ success may be that it does things differently from most virtual schools. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships. It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences.
An interesting approach to the limitations of relationships with online coursework. It seems to be working for them, but I’ll need to do more research.
One of the most powerful productivity tools that I use is the ability to store multiple items in the clipboard. I’ve written in the past how I do this, but until today I had not found one that worked on the Chromebooks (and the web clipboard in Google Docs doesn’t count). Clipboard History 2 is…
This Saturday I will be presenting at the University of Akron’s iPad Symposium. As I’ve attended numerous conferences throughout my professional career, I’ve started to realize I should create a to do list so I don’t forget anything before a conference…
I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design things in a way that defends a billion people’s minds from getting hijacked. When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does…
Why be like everyone else, edit the Google Slides master to create custom themes! Source: Google Slides: Edit the Slide Master – Teacher Tech Great tip about Google Fonts! And for another example of customizing, check out my post on making Google Slides your own.
