Okay, so it’s not Buffalo, but one of our teachers lives out in the country and due to the recent snowstorm was unable to come to school. Normally, that isn’t a great emergency as we do our own coverages for…
So I was sitting in the Faculty Lounge yesterday (as I am as much as I can… see It’s too far…) and I was chatting with a Social Studies teacher. She was asking about the Microsoft conference I had attended…
One of our participants here at the Park City Mathematics Institute asked me how we did student feedback at our school; I wrote him an email but thought I’d illustrate it a bit more here: So, we have a little…
I’ve been busy with the wrap-up of the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) so this has had to wait. But I caught the article “10 Things Every Teacher Should Know How To Do With Google Docs” and felt a parallel…
We’re just about finished here at the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) and the afternoon professional development workshop creation process has only a few days left. The last big stage was actually this weekend when each group’s work was sent…
Each day as part of the 3-week Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), we have a 75 minute session called “Reflecting on Practice”. We take the 60-or-so participants and break out into three smaller rooms of about 20 each, further subdividing…
At Appleby College, we’ve been using Microsoft OneNote for a l.o.n.g time now … and structured shared OneNote Binders for two full academic years now. Folks often ask how much time it takes for teachers to get accustomed to working…
During the first three weeks of July, I have the amazing opportunity to work at the Park City Mathematics Institute. It is, without exaggeration, the best professional development opportunity for teachers of mathematics. Participants spend three weeks thinking deeply about…
OneNote, as well as I can gauge from the number of tweets I see tagged with it, has been undergoing a marked increase in user base. So, I’ve been trying to mirror what folks do with GoogleDocs and show how…
We got great news today… Microsoft Office Labs have released an app for Sharepoint2013 that will create a OneNote notebook for your class very similar to what we use at Appleby! The direct link to the Store is This is…