When coming back from a conference, everyone wants to know how it was. “It was okay. You didn’t miss much,” is my usual response. I never know what to say. Sometimes the teachers that go get really excited about things, and I don’t understand what all the fuss is about. This week’s eTech Ohio [...]
Posted on February 6th, 2009 by John Schinker
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When I taught middle school, I would explain to my students that the Internet has three uses. It can be used as a resource, for retrieving information. It can be used as a dissemination tool, to publish information for a global audience. And, it can be used to interact with others. My classes were spending [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2007 by John Schinker
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Summer’s a great time for reading. Actually, any time is a great time for reading. A lot of people like to take a few good books on vacation, or spend warm summer evenings at home with a book. I had a high school teacher who implored us to always be reading something. It doesn’t have [...]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by John Schinker
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This is an easy one, but it may take some time. It’s one of those things you’ve been meaning to do when you have more time. That time is now.
The web has all kinds of great resources to enhance your teaching. Back in April, I mentioned several sources of great instructional materials, including these two:
I [...]
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by John Schinker
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I know. The National Educational Computing Conference was a month ago. Educators and educational technologists gathered from all over the country (and beyond) to discuss best practices and new innovations and better ideas for using technology in education. There were 17,000 people there. I wasn’t one of them.
For me to go to NECC, the stars [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2007 by John Schinker
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