Happy 2015!! I hope it goes super #Amazeballs! This past year, I had 8,900 views – mind blowing to a guy who is trying to share his love of teaching a passion for learning!! There were 46 total posts that covered everything from legislative issues, gamification, flipclass, the ISTE conference, and …
Well into the the Quest to become Calculus Gods, its time to show how things are working behind the scenes…Most of this information can be found here: http://haselcalc.wikispaces.com/ Over the summer I tried really hard to come up with different things for the students to purchase. Here is a list of …
The quest that is Calculus in my classroom this year has really started to turn interesting. Students have officially moved into that space where teachers can start to feel uncomfortable – they are all over the place! I have students blazing through Quest 3A others scheduling their Quest 2 Boss …
I teach and am proud to do so. At the risk of being just a little self-serving – I think I am pretty damn good at it! I try super hard to form relationships with my students. To really get to know them. To understand them and what is going …
Before I get to far into this post: I am not the best writer and I am not normally one to get really active politically as a teacher. I just don’t have time…I know that I should call/email/fax/smoke signals with my elected leaders but who has time with all of …
So…as a math teacher, sometimes finding really cool ways to incorporate fun stuff into class can be a little difficult. Its a struggle to get the kids to show all of their work using paper and pencil, forget about it if they have to type it all in!. But this …
So…If you have read this blog before, you know that I am a flipclass teacher. What you may not know is that I have some confessions to make – enough confessions that my colleague Kristina Stevenson and I created a professional development session. And we had the good fortune to …
I have a passion for educational technology (from here on #edtech) and I know that there is tons of stuff out there that I have no idea about…So I have started up an #EdTech lunch at school! Why not tap into the greatness that is already in my building: fellow …
So we are into the first two weeks of the school year and things have gone fairly smooth. Classes are going really well. Most of the students are adjusting to the flip model and there have been lots of great interaction with other students and myself. It continually amazes me …
So the great experiment that was flipped math last year is now “new and improved” and upgraded to version 2.0! I started using the flip model last year and went all in, flipping three different courses in a single year. Wow! What was I thinking when I decided to do …