Elements of Change – My COETAIL Final Project

Earlier in the semester, as I was brainstorming ideas of what my COETAIL final project would look like, I put myself in my students’ shoes, and thought about what changes I could make to the course to help make understanding of chemistry easier for my students.  IB Chemistry is a challenging course for students, and …

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Community Engagement, Globally and Locally.

One of the reasons that I joined the COETAIL program was that I knew it would push me to develop my network by using digital tools to connect with other educators globally.  Prior to joining COETAIL, I had a limited online presence in a professional sense, which is a very large oversight for anyone looking …

An 18 Month Transition from Twitter Skeptic to Advocate.

I will be honest from the outset: my attitude toward Twitter in the past could have been described as ambivalent - at best.  And that would be somewhat charitable. I think the reason for my initial impression about Twitter is because I had understood Twitter to be an almost exclusively social phenomenon, where people go …

Building a Course Website, and Using Student Feedback to Improve it.

It was my goal at the start of the year to more robustly and regularly utilize some of the many digital resources available to really integrate them into the fabric of the courses I teach at my school.  I have generally focused on tools and apps available from Google, however, I have also been exploring …

A much belated hello, update, and discussion of my COETAIL final project.

Hello fellow COETAIL Cohort 9 members, and anyone else who may be reading!  It has been a long time since I have posted here, but that is certainly not for a lack of things to write about.  I’ve been quite busy with my teaching this semester, having grade 11 and 12 IB Chemistry classes, an …