Blog Design – Single e-Learning Lesson Over time as the popularity of my full blog design course grew, I began to break my course into individual lessons. Not every teacher needed the full course, and breaking my course into single e-learning lessons allowed me to more easily tailor the content to my clients’ individual needs. […]
Website Design In addition to my instructional design skills, I have been creating websites since I was in high school. I began with creating unique layouts for my friends’ journal sites in high school. I taught myself HTML5 in order to customize sites to my friends’ tastes. Word of my skills quickly spread, and, over
Publishing Site Tutorial Video I made many tutorial videos for my blog professional development course. This is one video that I have also isolated as a separate quick tutorial. Sometimes my clients just need a quick overview on how to publish their teaching blogs, so I will provide them with this video. Over the years,
Blog Content Decision Maker The biggest problem I observed in my clients was that teachers were feeling overwhelmed at how to create a teaching blog from scratch. The amount of content required by administration coupled with an unfamiliarity with technology was daunting to so many of my clients. My background in English Education came in
Designing a Teaching Blog – Professional Development Course One of the first successes I had in teaching came from my blog. Teaching blogs have become increasingly popular over the past decade, and now they are considered an essential part of the job. I have always loved technology and originally had designs to be an online
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Figurative Language Lesson When I began teaching sixth grade, I was approached by the seventh grade English teaching team. They were concerned that students were coming into seventh grade unprepared for their first unit that revolved around poetry. They had been voicing these concerns for years to no avail, so I was determined to find
Lexile Measure Infographics During my tenure as a teacher, I worked at schools with diverse learner populations. At these schools, students are often way below reading level, and the gaps in their reading proficiency tends to grow as they escalate through the educational system. I needed to find a way to communicate to both parents
Discipline Escalation Decider Teachers are constantly inundated with paperwork and policy adjustments. It can be difficult to keep track of policy changes and adjustments along with all of the other responsibilities of the job. When my school overhauled their discipline escalation, administration distributed a complicated flowchart to help teachers decide how to manage behavioral disruptions.
