So we have a period of time in our course where we have two summative activities and then a final exam. Basically, a lot of time to review as we try to pull ideas together and strengthen skills & understanding.…
So it happened that the day I was going to give a test, I couldn’t, so I needed to quickly get together some review questions for the students to work on. (Sorry, I wasn’t ready to start the next unit…
A brief aside.I had dropped by a workshop first thing this morning and was sitting at the front and wanted to grab a shot of the screen; at first I used my camera — I wasn’t thinking. As soon as I looked…
So while my hometown undergoes a rare March Break blizzard, I’m enjoying 13C and sun in beautiful Edinburgh. It’s quite enjoyable to be relaxing in a coffee shop watching the Scottish go about their daily tasks while I get caught…
In the summer of 2012, I started a new position at Appleby College. Moving from math teacher to “indeterminate job title”1 meant that for the first time in 20 years, I would not be in the classroom. The goal of…
So my new year’s resolution is to write one blog post a week.I thought I would start off by answering a question I was asked during #PubPD in October. Now, #PubPD is a fun evening where teachers gather together in…
This was a recent question posted amongst school educators G suite versus Office 365. Thoughts? Since I wrote a fair bit, I thought I’d also post it here: If people are learning with a modern pen-based tablet pc, or are…
We’re just prepping for the start of the school year (we don’t start teaching until the 12th) and I just thought I’d run through how enmeshed Microsoft OneNote is to our school. 1) Class OneNotes — this is where it…
Regardless of your teaching style, you’re going to want to provide students with content – articles to read, worksheets to practice, diagrams to explore, maps to color, etc. While OneNote allows the students complete freedom in constructing content within their…
So far we’ve created a Class Notebook *link* and made the first page our own *link*. Now we’re going to provide some content for the students. The _Content Library is where all YOUR stuff goes; it’s the Teacher space. We used…