The Edublog Awards are calling for nominations.
My nominations are:
Best Educational Use of a Social Networking Service: Principles of Biology
Best Individual Blog: What It’s Like on the Inside
Best Teacher Blog: NashWorld
Best Educational Tech Support Blog: JoeWoodOnline
Best Educational Wiki: Periodic Table Wiki
Best Class Blog:
Extreme Biology – we aren’t supposed to nominate ourselves, but I’m nominating my students [...]
Using Blogs to Promote Science Literacy
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education blogging)
In addition to posting it on Slideshare, I’ve put my presentation up as a PDF document here and as a HTML document here for easy downloading.
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the presentation. Please join in the conversation here [...]
I’m blogging about my conference experience over on the NSTA Conference Blog!
“Gender Stereotyping” Photo: Aislinn Ritchie
Last year when I blogged with my students I noticed no difference in the success females had versus males. Both were equally productive at writing posts and comments and earning a 100 on the project. This year, females in the class have been doing better on the blog than males. However, [...]
My original intent was to begin preparing for the conference weeks ago. But, life has a funny way of ruining plans. Having your car die on the interstate and spending the next week trying to find another car is just one example. Does anyone actually enjoy the process of buying a car?
Anyway, I finally have [...]
Instead of using the “cookbook” method for this 9th grade general biology enzymes lab, I tried to make it more inquiry-based. While it still isn’t true inquiry because I gave the students the questions to answer, it was a lot more fun than the cookbook way. Pictures and a video of the lab plus one [...]
