Several weeks ago, seems a lot longer, I started a classroom blog. After a false attempt on edublog I decided to use our school server. I wasn’t convinced it was the best and actually wasn’t happy that there would be no widgets. Now to be honest, 2 months ago I didn’t know there was such [...]
Entries from October 24, 2011
Course 1 Final Project Reflection
October 17, 2011 · 2 Comments · Coetail course 1, Learning, Standards, Unit plan
Write a unit plan using UbD that integrates technology. This sounded like a project that was going to be very practical, especially since we are “integrating technology” into 3 of our units this year. Using UbD didn’t seem unreasonable since we have spent the last 2+ years working on understanding Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe’s [...]
Learning Targets Who Needs Them?
October 11, 2011 · 7 Comments · Coetail course 1, Digital Citizenship, ISTE, Learning, Standards
I DO! ISTE, NETS what are they all about? A few weeks ago I had never heard of ISTE or NETS. Standards, learning targets that’s all we’ve talked about the past few years at our school. We’ve spent a lot of time looking at various standards and then choosing to write our own most of [...]
Where am I on Bloom’s Taxonomy?
October 3, 2011 · 4 Comments · Bloom's Taxonomy, Coetail course 1, Learning, Tech tools
Somewhere at the beginning of the Coetail course we read an article about Bloom’s new taxonomy. At the time I wasn’t sure I would every be able to get above the Lower Order Thinking Skills (LOTS). I was really hoping that I could just Remember and possibly Understand a few of the terms and ideas. This [...]
