Tag: School Life
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Mystery Location Calls, Hangouts and Skypes
So this morning I led the above Hangout and I promised a list of the links I mentioned… so here they are: What Mystery Location Calls are: Cybrary Man’s Mystery Location Call – http://cybraryman.com/mysterylocationcall.html Mystery Hangouts for Foreign Language Teachers – http://mysteryhangouts.blogspot.jp/ Infographic – http://www.slideshare.net/dambrosio7/mystery-hangout Breaking Down Classroom Walls with Google Hangouts: One Classroom’s Mystery Hangout Journey […]
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Maps for Mystery Hangouts
If you don’t know what a Mystery Hangout/Mystery Skype/Mystery Location Call is and you are a teacher… especially a geography, language, or world cultures teacher… then you are missing out. Essentially it is a real-time 20 questions game between students in two different classrooms. You can only ask Yes/No questions and each side takes turns. […]
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Help #edtech and #ict friends! I have to meet tomorrow to justify use of edtech and #GoogleDrive use at school again!
I want to have as many points as possible! I am again facing critics who just want to keep to the blackboard and chalk standard and I need to explain not only “Why Ed Tech?” but also “Why Google Drive?” If you have a moment and you can go to this Google Doc: http://goo.gl/oAzF1q Please […]
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Ode to School Lunch and those who provide me with it
The featured image in this post is that of Fuwa-Fuwa OmuRice, one of my favorite dishes at my school’s cafeteria. It’s delicious, and, I always compliment the lunch ladies each and every time. So, I’ve been a teacher long enough now that I work with a colleague who could have been one of my […]