More Mindset resources

Rachel Herter from PERTS shared some additional mindset resources for anyone who is interested: Mindset Meter: You can do this survey with your students in class to assess their mindsets. It may be helpful to go over this survey with them if they take it. Online Deeper Learning Mooc: Weekly panel that discusses deeper learning and growth … Continue reading →

Assignment cover sheets

I really like assignment cover sheets for physics HW and labs. Now that I’ve used them, I’m never  going back! Here are a few of the perks I’ve noticed: I get a sense of how a student feels about an assignment. I get to find out which students found the assignment fun and easy, which found it hard and discouraging, … Continue reading →

Gamified learning

The Pericles Group has produced a 2-year curriculum for a Latin class-as-game. You can find more information at their website here: http://www.practomime.com. CH, the instructor who shared this with us, says: The founders were hardcore MMORPG players and Latin teachers and decided to combine the two into a Latin class. Role playing games are super … Continue reading →

Mindmapping

A mind map is a diagram in which you organize information hierarchically, usually around a single central idea. The short video below explains one good interpretation of a mind map. Mind maps can be used for planning or elaborating just about anything: projects, curricula, assignments, creative endeavors, etc. There are lots of apps that facilitate easy mind-mapping, … Continue reading →

Approaches to task management and time management

My thanks to everyone who shared with me the successful (and unsuccessful) ways they handle all that is on their agenda! As one staff member rightly acknowledged, it’s helpful to change task management systems every now and then because once we get used to a system, we begin to ignore things and they pile up … Continue reading →

Quick tip to make eCollege pages look better

If you browse around the web, you will notice that almost no text you see is wider than 700 pixels (this text is 630px). ECollege page text, on the other hand, will by default expand to the right edge of your browser window. You can change this by doing the following: In Author mode, click … Continue reading →

Wait-time

As you may already know, “wait-time” is the term used to describe the length of time between when a teacher asks a question and when the teacher calls on a student. Here is an old but good article by Mary Budd Rowe discussing the benefits of increasing wait-time. The short summary is that waiting a few … Continue reading →

Protected: Efficient assignment feedback on a Mac

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Scanner alternatives

My students’ scanners sometimes break, and when this happens, I may receive no work at all, or I may receive a series of photos that are either illegible or problematically large. A student last year alerted me to the existence of a variety of mobile phone “scanners” that turn a series of pictures into a … Continue reading →

Protected: Lab tweetbooks?

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