Hi. My name is Scott and I am a PhD student at Oklahoma State University. One of my big interests is *gamification in the classroom AND gamifying professional development. I am really leaning towards this topic (gamification) for my dissertation…Just not sure what aspect. Please take a few minutes and respond with …
One of my favorite games of all time is Tomb Raider – there is action, adventure, puzzles, gripping story telling, and amazing locations. A new installment is due out just in time for Christmas (hint, hint). I thought about putting a teaser trailer in, but this game has turned more toward …
Dear Reader, I know that you are still in recovery from my super challenging piece on Culture and Diversity, take heart! This one less challenging 🙂 Gamification is a word that has been getting used more often over the past four years. The ISTE conference over the past two years …
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 …
Gamification so far has been great! I love that my administrators have given me the freedom to go with this model and have been supportive in providing encouraging feedback about different issues that have developed. Most of these issues have been very minor and nothing big enough that I can …
My family loves to watch Doctor Who – especially the reboot! As we watch the latest version of The Doctor save the world (yet again) I am reminded about some very interesting similarities between Doctor Who and My Classroom… The Doctor = The Teacher If you haven’t seen an episode of Doctor …
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 …
Calculus this week, we continue with trying to figure out how to solve those darn limits. It’s been a struggle for the students to figure out a consistent way to understand what the limit process means. Finding out you are investigating a graph as you approach specific x-values and not about …
This week in Calculus the task was to break down those barriers that students have when we are talking about limits. This is really hard, so on Tuesday we started class off with a Kahoo.it quiz (go ahead and take the quiz, see the feedback and think of the possibilities) over the …