I feel like my teachers always emphasized the importance of group work but kind of threw us to the wolves to figure out how to do it, especially when we are all supposed to be equal players with no manager to oversee the final product. Can you recommend any resources for how to do effective, professional group work among peers?
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The parachute from the Perseverance landing carried a hidden message. Encoded in binary, the message read Dare Mighty Things. This was the team’s motto, and was plastered on the walls of Mission Control…
For the last nine weeks of the school year I decided to check out Classcraft.com as I look into gamification in the classroom. This won’t be a review, but more of a first look at Classcraft and how it can work in the classroom. What is gamification? Gamification is the use of behavioristic tools in the…
I was browsing Reddit instead of working, and stumbled upon I just lost all my writing. Let’s add this as a warning for anyone using a newer Mac (since they started adding the T2 chip for security). iMac Pro Mac mini introduced in 2018 MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later MacBook Pro introduced in…
I’ve talked about using Google Drive to store videos for your class, and today I want to show you how you can form a link to a video so it starts playing at a specific time. It turns out that the Google Drive not only looks like the Youtube player, but also accepts some of…
Students can easily publish ebooks with My Storybook. Once the students have accounts created (if the students don’t have email addresses, My Storybook has directions on what to do), the creation process is pretty straight forward. On the left side of the screen are the four tools that are available. Items – Built-in clipart sorted by…
As it turns out, economists, chemists, aviators, and scuba divers use the Rule of Three (even Agatha Christie did when she wrote a series of plays entitled, The Rule of Three). Although it has not been labeled as the Rule of Three, great educators have used it in classrooms since Aristotle (ever heard of syllogisms?). So what is…
