by brholland | Oct 22, 2012 | All Topics
I wrote this post with my colleague, Shawn McCusker (@ShawnMcCusker), from Chicago. It first appeared on Edudemic and then was re-blogged at EdTechTeacher. So, here it is again – just in case you missed it there… Are you a Beta-Max? Now that we are all...
by brholland | Sep 4, 2012 | All Topics
Well, I admit it, this is a re-blog of a re-blog, but I wanted to have a copy of the article. I wrote this in response to an email from a Teaching the Elementary Grades summer workshop participant. First, I submitted it to Edudemic. Then, I re-blogged myself on the...
by brholland | Jun 26, 2012 | All Topics
My first classroom was a 50 foot sailboat. For several years, I worked my way up the food chain at ActionQuest – an adventure learning program based in the British Virgin Islands – from instructor to skipper. During my first summer running a boat, I...
by brholland | May 4, 2012 | All Topics
When I started with EdTechTeacher last summer, one of the requests that Tom Daccord made was for me to present at 5-7 regional conferences in the next 10 months. Back in November, I presented virtually at the Global Education Conference. This past March, I...
by brholland | Apr 30, 2012 | All Topics
It’s happened to me a few times now. A participant has walked into one of my EdTechTeacher workshops, clearly miffed at the idea of spending a given period of time learning something that they feel clearly has no significance to their curriculum. However, unlike...