I’ve very excited to be one of the administrators of The Synapse, a social network of biology teachers. It’s quite diverse with teachers across many grade levels and different years of experience. Please come join us!
Why should you join? You can share ideas, get help with lesson plans and lab activities, and receive encouragement and [...]
In my previous post I mentioned that Animoto is great for increasing student interest in topics you cover in class (but not so great for teaching them the actual content).
My students thought I was the coolest teacher ever when I showed them this Animoto trailer I created for our upcoming celebration of Darwin Day:
When they [...]
Photo source: Castaway in Wales on Flickr
My current students are my guinea pigs. I try not to test on them too much, though. One group told me they love all the apps, but only if we use them one at a time. I think that’s because to most of them all of these things are [...]
Over the last two years my class blog has received multiple facelifts. A great example of this is the evolution of my blog header as the blog became less teacher-centered and more student-centered. The current blog header was actually designed by one of my students.
To continue the evolutionary trend I am updating the grading method [...]
Here are few of the students I am taking to the Science Online ‘09 Conference responding to the question: What do you like about blogging?
I knew I was going to be absent from school last Monday and felt a lot of anxiety about it because I missed several days a few weeks before to attend a conference. Every day I miss with my AP students stresses me out so much because I have to get through a ridiculous amount [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
I wouldn’t usually post a private email, but I’m sure Mr. Updyke wants me to publish this information. It doesn’t belong on my student-run blog, but I can post it here.
Your Name: Brian Updyke
Your Email Address: brian.updyke@gmail.com
Subject: New FOX TV Show Looking for Teachers!
Message: Hey there!
The Osbournes are coming back to TV with a brand-new [...]
I promised last year to continue listing case studies I’ve successfully used in my 9th grade biology or AP biology classes. Listed below are a few more. For my previous list go here. The comments to that original post also contain some additional cases.
All of these case studies can be found in a list with [...]
