Friday Friendly: Bloggers from Outer space…

If you’ve recently been thinking about ways to make use of ePortfolios next year..or next month: this post’s for you. Wait.  Back up a minute.  Why should we use online portfolios? In addition to inherent components of reflection, which traditionally have been viewed as internal (thinking about one’s own learning and that thinking primarily benefiting ourselves),…

Using Quicktime Screen Recording to Reflect

Students are always asked to reflect on their work. But how do we do this? Most of the time we get them to write a reflection. In my experience, these written reflections take a lot of time and students may not express their thoughts completely for a number of reasons. Students can be oversaturated by the sheer…

Letting Go of the Step by Step Tech Lesson

I admit it. I have a problem. It’s not a bad problem to have. But sometimes it can be depressing. Sometimes my problem makes me feel like I wasn’t a good teacher that day. Or that I didn’t make a difference for a student when I was in their class. What is my problem you…