Connecting Live With Educators
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ December 15, 2015. That’s the date on this draft post I was thinking about writing. It is the second of my 10 “draft” posts I have on my blog. I’m about to shift this blog over to WordPress and away from Blogger. I have 276 blog posts altogether. Most were written over a 4 […]
Putting Together a Design Class in a IB World School (Part 2)
Screen Capture from – https://goo.gl/VoUfRT [NOTE: Originally written a week ago] “So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it. Thank you.” Willy Wonka. Right now I’m feeling like a cross between the Scarecrow ( giving directions in OZ) and Willy Wonka these days. One minute I’m heading one […]
I’m Not a Techie
Technology Cow via http://goo.gl/XR2MYi In 1976 I went to the University of South Carolina to be a dual Math and Computer Science major. I got my math degree but gave up on computers after spending hours at the card punch machine at late hours on the university’s one computer (that also had to do research and […]
It’s Great to Have Awesome Instructional Technology Specialists
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joealterio/ This week I was sitting in on our ELA teachers as they were working with the Heart of Texas Writing Project. A discussion came up about publishing student work. There was the usual talk about creating a newspaper or a magazine. But I instantly thought of online opportunities for sharing student work. That’s because […]
The Future Look of My Edcamp Presentations
Original Central Texas Edcamp First, we all need to agree that one should never, NEVER, do a sit-n-git session at ANY professional development. This is especially true for edcamps. Just putting that out there. If, for example, you have to start a portion of a PD with the phrase, ” I apologize, but for the […]
Sometimes I Take Care of My Teachers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shootina710is/ Sometimes teachers can make me really cranky. Sometimes teachers come across as real babies. Sometimes I am so disappointed in teachers who won’t try something new. Sometimes I question why I’ve been able to stay in this profession for over 20 years when I’ve had to hold teachers’ hands since that very first Summer […]
PLN’s Help When You Least Expect It
On October 3, 2007 I opened my Twitter account. My wife had been on for a while (since it was introduced to the public the Spring before at the SXSW conference). If you go onto Twitter and look me up (@cfanch ) you’ll see that I have one list of people to follow: Edpros. Most […]
Nothing to Write About Today…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbgrigby/ I really want to write a blog post today. I wanted to write one yesterday. This past week was pretty busy so I didn’t think about it. But I wanted to write a post last weekend too. It’s not like I don’t have anything to say about PBL. It’s not like I haven’t read […]
Edcamps Are a Must
If you’re reading this and either went to Edcamp Waller or another edcamp recently then I want you to send this to some friends who didn’t go so they can read what I have to say. Edcamps are the greatest thing since, well, just about any professional development (PD) you or I have ever been […]
Change Can be Scary
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purplemattfish/ Our teachers are pretty darn good at what they do. Oh, we have a few who are struggling with classroom management and a few others who aren’t the best team players, but overall they really come together for our students and that’s what it’s all about – the students. Next school year our teachers […]