Introducing Minecraft and Design MYP!
I have decided not to with my original unit plan. In the last school year I was able to get dollars to buy licenses for MinecraftEdu and then subsequently run an after school Minecraft club. I blogged...
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An Experiment with Minecraft in MYP Design: A CoETaIL Course 5 Final Project
Here it is at last. After weeks, days, hours, and minutes of procrastination I’ve managed to get this monster uploaded. I have been sitting here contemplating what tone I should set in this post....
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I am a Connected Educator: Thank you CoETaIL
One of my biggest successes this year as a CoETaIL participant is being able to leave my “lurker” self behind. The following tweets sum it up for me: I joined Twitter in 2009, and for literally years...
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If I had a magic wand
The Rant Photo Credit: FrodoBabbs via Compfight cc My grandfather got his first teaching job in 1935 in your stereotypical one room school house in southern Alberta, Canada. He retired in 1975 as...
View ArticleIB Learner Profile Infographics: Feel Free to Steal!
I created these infographics for my classroom, so I’d thought I’d share. They were created with Piktochart. A majority of the icons are from The Noun Project, but a few are from the Piktochart icon...
View ArticleTeacher no more: I am a lead learner
As an educator I’m always looking for ways I can shift the paradigm of my profession away from the traditional. Very often I frustrate myself by thinking too big, and by expecting administrators,...
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Quick Reflections on #edcampqatar2016
photo courtesy of @sarakthompson I’ve always wanted to go to an un-conference, and this morning I finally had that chance when I attended Ed Camp Qatar hosted by the American School of Doha here in...
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Organize them with Kanban in the Classroom
Kanban, Huh?! For several weeks on our drive home from work last spring my wife and colleague, Sara Thompson, shared with me her new idea she was experimenting with in her classroom. She called it...
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Knowledge Construction is Key: A Reading Response
This post is a reading response for my course An Introduction to 21st Century Teaching and Learning for my MEd in Leadership and Learning at UPEI. The referenced readings are cited at the bottom of...
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A Connected Classroom: Course Five Proposed Project
Some Context for the Fall of 2015 In the fall, on top of Course 5, I will also have a new job as the MYP Design teacher in our first year as an MYP school. I will also continue to support our teachers...
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