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Educator, Thinker, Consultant. It has been my pleasure to provide a wide variety of professional development experiences. My presentations focus on applying learning into the classroom. I’ve presented on Student Centered Learning strategies and many uses of technology. I continually present and work with teachers as part of my day job. Below are some of the conference presentations that I’ve delivered. If you’d like to know more, please contact me. Glossary – It’s more than just words. Moodle Administrat...

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Moodle Moot

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Educator, Thinker, Consultant. August 16, 2015. We recently held a Moodle Moot. For work. We’ve structured the Moot as a two day affair. The first day is structured as an overview. We do a ton of instruction. There is a lot in Moodle to talk about. We cover Resources vs Activities. We share examples of a few specific types. We’ve chosen the most popular/used modules. The second is a “hands-on” day. We tried to make the Moodle Moot. Was good old fashioned learning. In the mood to share? Time ago 6 Days.

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve: Project Based Learning

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve. Ideas on transforming teaching and learning! Standards tell what students should know and be able to do, but do they tell how to use this power, change the world and make a difference? How can we develop curiosity? The Difference between Projects and Project Based Learning. Image courtesy of www.ena.com. Resources to Facilitate Project-Based Learning in your Classroom. 7 Essentials for Projects Based Learning. Rubric for Collaboration and Proposals. Unit Planner for PBL.

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve: Use Named Ranges and Countif for Amazing Data Collation

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve. Ideas on transforming teaching and learning! Sunday, 12 April 2015. Use Named Ranges and Countif for Amazing Data Collation. This is a handy function that you might want to use if you want to tabulate how many people indicate something on a survey that you want to "push" to another spreadsheet in order to look for trends in the data by dynamic graphs in real-time. Enjoy! Importing Data through HTML. Using the query function to filter and sort data. View my complete profile.

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve: Importing Data through HTML

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve. Ideas on transforming teaching and learning! Tuesday, 24 February 2015. Importing Data through HTML. Here's a quick tutorial on how to import data into a Google Spreadsheet using the import HTML function. This is great if you work with data from various websites, but this function solves the problems of:. Copying and pasting data can create issues with data not populating into cells correctly. Mapping Water Quality with Google Spreadsheets. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve: Assessment

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve. Ideas on transforming teaching and learning! An exclusive reliance on a single type of assessment can frustrate students, diminish their self-confidence, and make them feel anxious about, or antagonistic toward, mathematics" (NCTM 1989, 2002). Projects/Inquiry Based Investigations 30%. Summative Tests/Authentic Assessments 60%. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Im a Google Certified Teacher and authorized Google Education Trainer who teaches Science at Korea International School, i...

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve: Targeting Instruction

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Teaching Ahead of the Curve. Ideas on transforming teaching and learning! There is much debate over what makes a good teacher. Some will argue that the "bottom line" of education is that a teacher should raise standardized test scores. Some will say that a good teacher inspires a love of learning. I think it should be a combination of both. There is also much debate about the role of assessment in education and many different arenas of research that support one approach or another. Unit 4 Curriculum and ...

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China-Teaching Day 2

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Educator, Thinker, Consultant. July 23, 2015. China Teaching Day Two. Breakfast is from the Western Cuisine Center. We had eggs, bacon, and hash browns. Starting off as a whole group. There was an announcement from a Principal that I didn’t understand at all. The teachers have been told that they are only to use English. Next up was sharing vocabulary and reading strategies using music. The song chosen was “Hear Me Roar” by Katie Perry. The strategy followed up the Talk to The Text. Our Homeroom is fille...

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Troy Patterson

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Educator, Thinker, Consultant. May 28, 2016. Has added Competency frameworks. To the mix. This fascinates me. Competency based is called Standards based. Education in the United States. The implementation in Moodle ties activities to specific standards. Interestingly, an activity can be set to multiple standards. At this point, I have more questions than answers. But I am excited about the possibilities. I am currently playing around with the Competencies, and do have a few answers. The jury for me is st...