Better to teach the course than wait for the perfect package to come along. These students are lucky to have this opportunity and a teacher willing to try something new in this era of "high stakes accountability" approach to instruction (test is most important, not learning).
So I think the AP Computer class could be set up better (if I could set the schedule, it might be: meet 2 times per week during the school day and an optional after school meeting with 1 group Skype) to make it more enjoyable for me to teach.
Great honest response to this situation. Many of us became teachers because of the kids and the "light going on" moments. It's refreshing to hear a teacher say that and to acknowledge that this might be working, but I would like a model that provides more opportunity for me to share in that experience with my students!
I'm sure there are students who would like that opportunity as well, which is why I believe blended classrooms have a very bright future.
Nice description of one way of developing an online/blended course model. I applaud Stacey's choice to do it, tweak later, rather than postpone doing it because it's "not 100% ready".
This is also a great tool for cropping and slicing parts of a video to share with others. You can use to specify the start point of your video or to skip scenes, zoom in, annotate your video,and even play it in motion.
I still believe that Diigo has the potential to be a worthwhile tool for high school students doing collaborative work in content area classrooms. Here is another teacher who is using it with her students and providing a basic framework for introducing it to her students.
Great mathematics blog from a young Filipino mathematician, Guillermo Bautista Jr. He does a very nice job of making the mathematics accessible through digital media. He discusses a very wide variety of topics.
Not a lot of posts, but some very good examples of the bar model. I share it because I think the examples are useful for teachers to understand how to help students bridge the gap between text and symbolic representation.
Interesting discussion of lecture as an instructional tool. It's not a condemnation or affirmation, but a discussion of appropriate use.
Lecture is not evil, but anyone using lecture as the main mode of information sharing should look at doing their own homework on how students learn and how to most effectively (notice I didn't say efficiently) convey information.