And in written version for the old school like me: Google assisted assessment: Doctopus and Goobric

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Common Sense Media is my one-stop webpage for Digital Citizenship. It has a detailed scope and sequence with detailed lesson plans that contain excellent materials. If you are an educator and did not know about this, have a look and consider the Digital Citizenship certification.

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I have been listening to TED talks for the past month. This is Benjamin Zander's "The transformative power of classical music":  

The talk is remarkable for various reasons and by all means you should make time and watch it. But I am writing here about what he says …

Last Thursday I attended yet another free webinar offered by EdWeb where Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher, classroom teacher/ IT Director – Westwood Schools spoke about techniques to cater for all the different learning styles and motivations present in a normal classroom. How to innovate for busy teachers The first thing…

Today I joined ds106, and as anything coming from Jim Groom it is hard to define. It is a MOOC on digital storytelling and according to this interview it is the reincarnation of EDUPUNK sans political statements. There are 800+ assignments, and each is rated with stars. You…

I just saw the recording of the webinar Building an Elementary School Coding Club: One Teacher's Experience with Trish Cloud, Technology Instructor, Grand Oak Elementary, Huntersville, NC offered by EdWeb. You can access the webinar recording at the webinar archives of the Teaching kids to code EdWeb community…

The title is an homage to the movie "What we do in the shadows", a really funny mockumentary that follows the night life (death?) of 4 vampires. It comes to mind because I am going to share what I do at night lately: 
I learn from the best …

What I see: The High School computer lab seems to be designed after the Panopticon: the teacher controls all the students' screens from the back of the class, since all computers are facing away from the wall forming a U shape. The undesirable consequence is students face the wall……

What I love most about teaching is having people know something because I caused that learning, and also helping people gain confidence to learn new things by themselves. I only wish I could inspire all my students… …

I did not have my teacher evaluation yet but what I really need to change is my planning… or actually documenting my planning. We use Rubicon Atlas for our curriculum mapping  and so far I have completed only my grade 9 course. I need to get my hands dirty with…

I am always trying new things, so it is difficult to pick just one. I tried Kahoot for the new teacher training just for fun and I think it was actually fun. I might do some formative test during the course like this. On the Moodle side, I am pretty…

This will be my 7th year teaching and my second at the American School of Valencia. I am really excited with the possibilities. Last year I did not blog at all since Twitter was more fun and easy to do.  However I want to really reflect on my decisions as …