Step Into Our Classroom: March 2014

What happens when a Google Certified Teacher takes a job behind the Great Fire Wall? I thought the answer to this would become less ambiguous after a few months in China, but surprisingly the answer's still not so clear. What is definitive is that the blogs I've been using for my various classes for more than a few years are now in a Han Solo-cryogenic state of hibernation.

The evidence of tech integration in my previous classes spoke for itself through my students' sharing of work, ideas, and products. Now, so much of the publishing stage of their work is on internal servers, that I feel the need to document this somewhere. So if in effort to share some of the potentially cool, and not so cool, things going on in my classes, I'll be using this blog (recycled grade 12 site) as a platform of productivity, a professional page, a pyt of a pln, and all sorts of sordid alliteration.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Ah... Good Times..The Case of the Phantom Essay

Love it when former students remind you that they you are not an oblivious lost thought- yeah people might like me..

I got en email from a former student today who, now as an adult, is appreciating quality email banter.

Vocab Vines...

I like vocabulary... I don't like stuffy vocabulary resources... I've been creating a plethora of vocab activities and methods of delivery which makes me laugh and the kids a bit more interested. Here's one... Vocab Vines. They know vines, they love vines and it supports a ton of learning objectives.