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Want to know your learning style? Take the quiz. There are 24 questions, and it will take less than five minutes to complete. Try not to think too hard -- just go with your first thought when describing your daily activities and interests. At the end, you'll find out more about how you learn.

Here is a quick learnign style survey. This would be a good one to share with upper level students and staff.

"Augmented reality is making some huge inroads in the field of education. More and more teachers are incorporating this relatively new technology in their classrooms. Augmented reality is also redefining the notion of learning by adding a layer of interactivity, engagement and vividness to students learning experiences. Teachers have been using augmented reality in many varied ways and across different school subjects, this post from Edutopia provides some good examples in this regard. The success of AR in education is attributed to the increasing availability of mobile apps designed specifically to help learners leverage the power of AR in their learning.  Below are some very good AR apps to try out with your students. This is a work in progress and we will be adding more to the list in the future. Enjoy"

Integrating Social Emotional Learning in schools.

I know the title may sound like a no-brainer, but I chose to share this article because it focuses on the proven value of Interactive Whiteboards. I have one and I know a few others in our class have them. One of my goals for this course is to better understand the possibilities of the technology available to me. I'm really looking forward to developing lessons using the voter response system, just one way to collect data about student learning.

Article about bringing the works of Shakespeare alive with performances on YouTube and rap. Inner city students can now understand the literary works of the most well known and read English author of all time. I remember when I was in high school most of us hated reading Shakespeare's plays, but if we were allowed to "remake" them with the plot untouched that would have been much better. Just shows and alternative assessment that gives students ownership over their learning.

Marc, I shared this with a teacher at the high school who teaches shakespear.

Great article I found on social and emotional learning. I enjoyed reading it, because it relates well with a topic I researched for another Wilson course this year. It would have been a great resource for my research paper.

Is there any money for field trips?

Wouldn't it be great to have him visit. Maybe if you google him you can get him to skype in. I bet Dr. Moyer would let you open skype for a visit from this guy.

A good break down of easy and free ways to ad images, video, and music to your classroom. It list free sites and software for teachers and students to use to create slideshows with music or videos with music. It also includes a site (Discovery Education streaming) that features videos of student adventures around the world. This article is also accompanied a link to another article that features students exploring story telling of a real life adventure.

A neat article from a parents perspective. The article includes tips on how today's parents want to be communicated with and included in their child's education. The article explains in detail about the current generation of parents and why they act the way they act.

I thought this poll was interesting since our school was currently looking into this effort.