Teaching Online, Using WizIQ
Create a Website to Complete a Project that Started with a Website
The world’s new reality It all begins and ends with the web. We can engage students in the creation of that reality, and maybe tweak it towards joy and sustainability. The web has changed our...
Using WizIQ
What Can An Online School Look Like
The possibilities are endless, and some of them are surprising and quirky. Let’s toss aside your old fashioned notions of “school” and see if we can imagine new possibilities for the wor(l)d. For the sake...
Teaching Online, Using WizIQ
Traveling and Online Teaching with my Child in Nicaragua
I just returned from a month in Nicaragua, where I was traveling with my 3 year old daughter. I work online and can be anywhere. There was no way that I was staying in New...
Teaching Online, Using WizIQ
Keeping Students’ Work Organized–For Free!
Fancy course management systems are not just for fancy universities You will not believe how cool this is: you can get a fancy course management system, for free! Yes, you, fifth grade teacher in a...
Teaching Online, Using WizIQ
A Synergistic Situation: Teaching Online and Nicaragua
I love to rock a kid’s world. One of my favorite moments was when Kelsey, who was in 8th grade four years ago, looked at me and said, “I think you just made my head...
Teaching Online, Using WizIQ
Creating an Inclusive Online Classroom
We don’t call on the first child to raise his hand As teachers we avoid calling on the first child who raises her hand, because when we do, we take away the other students’ chance...