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It sounds like an infomercial, doesn’t it? I lost 15 pounds in 6 days and you can, too! Although it may be hard to believe, I really did grade that many essays in less than one week. I’m finishing up my stay here in Kansas City. I, along with over 500 of [...]
Why don’t we have a pep rally for academics?
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A couple of months ago I had to sit through a hour-long meeting where the importance of athletics was emphasized as a powerful way to build connections with kids and their families. Well, duh.
I love sports, but that hour long meeting left me shaking [...]
So I’ve written and submitted this blog post directly in Facebook using a new application called Blog It by Six Apart. With this application a person on Facebook can write a post and publish it on all of their blogs at the same time. I find the usability of this tool somewhat confusing, though. Why [...]
I’ve been successfully using the case studies found on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website. I’ve used them with my AP Biology students. While some of them have been a lot of fun, others were a bit too advanced for even an AP level course.
Here are my teacher-tested, favorite cases:
My Dog [...]
You can find a lot of blog safety guidelines with a quick google search. Here’s what I use:
Student and Parent Blog & Wiki Contract
Blog Safety Rules
I also show the students the following video.
Download Video: Posted by mjhasley at TeacherTube.com.
The only thing I don’t like about it is that it negatively portrays the janitorial staff (which the kids [...]
After almost two years of blogging (one with students) I’ve run across some fantastic add-ons for my blog. I thought I’d list the ones that I really like for those teachers just getting started.
Slideshare
Share powerpoints online and embed them into your blog (works just like youtube)
Google Docs
Create and share documents, spreedsheets, etc.
Box.net
Upload documents and [...]
I posted my infamous Biology of Love lecture on slideshare a couple of months ago and since then it’s been downloaded over 100 times! The success has inspired me to update the lecture for 2008. Here is the updated 2nd version.
Slideshare doesn’t support videos so I had to take those out. I use various clips from youtube [...]
Will Richardson caught my attention with his post, “Looking for Student Bloggers.” He laments that there are few student blogs that contain writing with a “synthesis that incorporates a deeper understanding” that avoids being “too report-ish.” I agree readily with Richardson and he’s received quite a few interesting comments to his post that [...]
I haven’t quite figured out how to use voicethread in a productive manner with my students, but I did want to learn how to use it. So I created this thread for practice. Hopefully, it will be of use to someone. Please let me know what you thought of it!
Comment-free Day. Last semester I moderated over 2,300 comments. Yes, I’m exhausted. While I enjoyed reading my students’ comments, there were many days when I needed to grade their non-blog related assignments, but I was busy with the blog. This semester, Wednesdays will be no commenting day. Students may not [...]
