creativity
7 ideas for creating a student centered learning environment by Paul Andersen
My wife has been raving to me about this cool biology teacher from Bozeman, Montana. Paul Anderson has become a star in the biology community for his Bozeman Biology YouTube channel. I discovered a TED talk that he gave sharing how he keeps his students engaged and learning. I had Read more…
Uncategorized
Zombies in the Classroom
My friends, I must warn you. We are in the midst of an epidemic of epic proportions. Our classrooms are ground zero. The zombie apocalypse is upon us. Every day, more and more of our students are becoming zombies. Not the brain eating, Walking Dead variety, but the mindless, Read more…
game based learning
Learn how to create a mobile app in minutes using Corona SDK
Many of my readers may enjoy learning how they can create apps for their favorite mobile devices: ipad, iphone, or Android. The Corona SDK provides an elegant framework for quickly creating applications and games. I have heard stories of middle school students creating rocking games with this tool. Read more…
teaching
Why should we teach both character and knowledge?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cauchipics/4471686868/sizes/m/in/photostream/ I believe that we can agree that the teachers who impacted us the most were the ones that served their students with love and served them with principled discipline. During a road trip with my wife, we listened to a thoughtful podcast from NPR’s “This American Life.” Read more…
agile
Our Top 14 Blog Posts on Teaching, Productivity, and Leadership
Top 14 blog posts on teaching, productivity, and leadership since 6/30/2012 5 ways to get more results in your teaching environment. Why is perspective critical to leading and teaching? Michael’s Free Book Index How to reduce stress by keeping work organized using EverNote 5 fun learning experiences with Legos Jennifer Read more…
agile
How is Scrum leadership evolving?
*** Disclaimer: no project management style is perfect — including scrum *** What is Scrum? To introduce scrum project management, I would encourage you to review the following video. (Scrum in 10 minutes) While scrum was created for the benefit of the software industry, the ideas can be used in Read more…
crowdsourcing
Jennifer Pahika challenges us to “code a better government”
I have watched the “Code for America” movement with great admiration. This movement encourages programmers to take a year off to do community service working with government. I believe that this movement is creating a very special community of technology empowered servant leaders. The following TED talk by Jennifer Pahika Read more…
game based learning
How to build a social networking site for free using Elgg
Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest have disrupted traditional channels of communication. While these existing sites are useful, organizations often need to establish their own social networking platform. Instructional designers often use services like Ning.com to enable students to learn and collaborate. Some corporations see Read more…
agile
5 fun learning experiences with Legos
Last Saturday, my four year old son Peter and I got lost in Lego Land for three hours. What were we doing? While the Lego Land experience has tons of activities for parents and their kids, my Peter and I were literally glued to the experience of building Lego race Read more…