For online teaching: Canvas – for course delivery Zoom – for recording lectures and having face-to-face meetings with students and colleagues Vimeo – stores videos of lectures and tutorials Playposit – turns lectures into interactive experiences for students with quiz questions, discussions, and polls FlipGrid – allows students to record themselves in video discussion Turnitin…
Category: Education – General
Teacher’s Convention 2016
Myrtle Beach 2016 This past week, I was able to attend the annual teacher’s convention in Myrtle Beach with my colleagues. The last time our school went to Myrtle Beach for the Southeast Christian School Association, I had just been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer. My presentation on ADHD was already prepared, but I would not be…
One Size Does NOT Fit All! Differentiating Education: Including Special Needs Children in the Regular Classroom
Differentiated education is a relatively new term for a style of teaching that describes instruction that includes a variety of methods for teaching and accessing all learners. Every year teachers are presented with a new classroom full of students. Some of the challenges each year will be similar to others we have encountered, but the…
Parenting with the Ten Commandments: Thou Shalt Not Steal
The Memory Dump I teach a Bible class to foreign exchange students, and last month I went through the Ten Commandments. In the middle of my explanation of the Eighth Commandment, my mind pulled out a memory from about 45 years ago. I read somewhere recently that the reason we have so few memories of…
Not What I Had in Mind – How I Ended Up in Special Education
Nineteen years is a long time! I had to use both hands – twice! – to count up the number of years that I have been teaching. The fact that I’m a teacher at all is a surprise to me! While cleaning out a closet recently, I came across a paper that I had penned…