Genuineness and originality is a must for every piece of creative writing, but maybe even more so for poetry. It’s not an easy task to […]

This month we’ve focused on the relationship between engagement and motivation. Chip Dye discussed how engagement is what keeps people in class, and I responded with […]

Designing and delivering an engaging learning experience is an effective way of keeping people in the virtual learning experience once they've started, but getting people […]

“Though there are many instances to which Cathedral Thinking can be applied, they all require the same foundation: a far-reaching vision, a well thought-out blueprint, […]

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, February 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is on Maintaining and Increasing Motivation. […]

The ability to stay motivated is essential for virtual school (and all) students to be successful.  Motivation is not something that you are born with. […]

For this month’s student tech tip, I’d like to highlight two resources shared on the Edudemic website. Edudemic is a site that provides educational technology […]

Cut the curriculum — from willrichardson.com by Will Richardson Excerpt: Here’s an idea: A Minimal Viable Curriculum (MVC). That’s what Christian Talbot over at Basecamp is […]

Our next #GuildChat takes place Friday, January 18th at 11am PT / 2pm ET. Our topic for this week’s chat is on Teaching Rarely Used […]

What is power?  Looking at the standard definition we see this: “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the […]

From DSC: First of all, an excerpt from an email from RetrievalPractice.org: Last week, we talked about an activity we call Flash Forward. Simply ask your […]

I’m sitting here on Halloween having just finished carving the pumpkins with my daughter and wife. It has become a tradition to get all the […]