Sunday, March 22, 2015

Creating an iTU coures

Creating an iTU course was challenging, engaging and reflective. For my course, I chose a unit we do with all 9th graders on Culture. We have essential questions to guide us, standards to follow, and assignments we share, but what we didn’t have was ways to creatively use the iPads. Creating a course...

Sunday, March 15, 2015

iTU reflection

My culture unit for the iTunes course has given me a chance to step back and reflect on the work I am currently doing with my students. It also allows me to consider how to make the material available for students who may not be physically in the class or absent from class...

Sunday, March 8, 2015

iTU

Differentiation Differentiation within my classes happens all the time as I get to know my students and their abilities. For example, in my Alternative Education English 9 class, I found that 8 of my 13 students were struggling with work completion for various reasons. For one student, I created...

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Digital Citizenship

The shared Google ecosystem I use often with students and staff. This year I have done quite a bit more with e-backpack, sharing documents with students, and have gotten away from Google Drive a bit. I do use Google forms to create quizzes for students and have also used it as a way to gather feedback...