My first attempt at online video chat with students
Last night, as part of my new “Your Homework is Due Tonight” movement, my students and I (and two adult volunteers!) discussed Siddhartha on my cla...
Category: technology
Getting ready for online book discussions
My students struggled with Beloved. It was a tough book: intense, confusing, long. I found out that my students have trouble tackling 100 pages at a time on th...
My thoughts about homework
Everybody’s talking about homework these days. There’s too much. Or maybe we should flip our classroom practice and change homework into what we us...
Using technology to build classroom community
I’m finding out that one of the most important things I can do as a teacher is to build classroom community. If students like being in my class, and if t...
Whether to sync my classroom Kindles
Now that I have six Kindles for student use, I have to decide whether to synchronize them or not. I don’t know what to do. Disadvantages to Syncing It mi...