For many teachers, grading and assessment are the duties of teaching most would rather avoid. I get it. For many these things get it the way of learning in that they are contrived , mandated, artificial and time consuming. My personal evolution with assessment is well documented here but as I continue to tweak my workflow and process have to come see this has a...

I wanted to share how I’ve been using Evernote as an Assessment Tool. I used Explain Everything on the iPad to create this video. I apologize the audio is not great, not sure how to improve this as I tried yelling, and using a headphone mic. I’ll be sharing more about how I do the self assessments although I’ve written about it here but I do love...

I just completed my self assessment as part of working at Discovery Education. Every employee, I believe has to complete them. Essentially, I develop my own goals, and myown measures and then complete my own assessment. My boss consults with me, helps me decide what's reasonable, has conversations with me about them and supports me to achieve them.  I could...

Those of you that know me, know my passion for the game of golf. It's a game I've been playing for nearly 40 years and hope to play for the rest of my life as Dad is now into his 80's. I've also used it as a metaphor and analogy on my occasions. Today Rod Murray tipped me off to a great article that uses ;golf as a metaphor for blended learning. I...

It's always a pleasure to chat with Howard Rheingold who is one of those yodas in education, technology and networks that I've followed for many years. Howard wanting to interview me about some of my work around assessment for the DML Central blog which by the way has some great interviews and posts there you'll want to check out.  You can find the...

Teaching online has it's advantages and disadvantages. I do miss face to face and think it's an extremely valuable environment when done well. Say what you want about the flipped classroom, but the effort to make the most time of face to face interactions is non-trivial.  I've had my students blog since the first time I taught this course back in...