Here are some helpful links that I found this weekend: 5 Good Alternatives to Google Image Search -- Educators and students are always looking for good sources for royalty free images or those with the appropriate Creative Commons status. These links are helpful for anyone wanting to remain in good copyright compliance. 6 Strategies for …
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Links List — 12.11.2017
I have not put a links list together for quite some time to share the items I have found. Perhaps you will find some links that are of interest to you from this list: Ten Creative Alternatives to Showing Movies Before Break -- Many educators are worn down by the middle of December and look …
Faithfully Learning Posts
Over the past several months I have crafted several blog posts for Concordia Publishing House. These posts have similar themes to that of FaithEdTech in that the explore the intersection of faith, education, and technology, but they also serve to point to resources from the publishing house that can help support these three ideas. Here are …
Conference Instagram Images
I have really enjoyed spending the past three days in Kennewick, WA, where the Northwest District Professional Church Workers' Conference has taken place. Lots of meaningful conversations took place with wonderful servants of the Lord. I am thankful to have been asked to lead at this conference. In my final session today we talked about …
Northwest District Conference Resources
Today through Friday I have the privilege of gathering together with other Lutheran school educators at the 2017 Northwest District Educators Conference of the LCMS. I always appreciate the opportunity to gather together with other teachers, share with them, and learn from them. I am facilitating four different sessions over the next three days. The …
Valedictorians, Learning, and Achievement
I was intrigued by the following article that I cam across this weekend: Farewell, Valedictorian: High Schools Drop Tradition of Naming Top Student For me, this is a welcome trend since this is an award that, I believe, is less about learning and more about achievement. The valedictorian at a school could be a fearless …
When Students Ask Permission
My goal is to have students own their learning -- to explore and to take risks. In many ways, our education system as whole has not encouraged them to be courageous learners, replacing this curiosity with compliance. The other day a student reached out to me with a new plan for sharing their current project …
10.4.2017 Links List
Here is today's list of links which may be helpful to educators: 7 Ways to Become a More Connected Educator Today -- If you are reading this, you probably are already a connected educator, using technological and online resources to improve your partitioning of education in your classroom. I know I probably need to be …
My Education Quotes
A few days ago I posted about the fascinating education quotes from George Couros, the keynote speaker at the Indiana District Lutheran Teachers Conference where I shared sessions and attended. I have also building a storehouse of quotes for educators. These are not really as deep or profound as those I shared from Couros, but …
Indiana District Conference Session Resources
I am pleased to be in Indiana today as we discuss personalized learning strategies across the grades in the morning and formative assessment strategies in the afternoon. Here are the session resources that connect with these two topics. Feel free to review these if these topics are of any interest to you as an educator. …
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