by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 13, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Teaching, Virtual Learning
No, it’s not by using a lock-down browser. Let’s Be Real…Cheating Happens Let’s think about what is going to happen when you combine online students with in-person students in a synchronous classroom. The students online have the advantage of being able to...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 8, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Teaching
One Way to Adjust to Teaching in 2020-2021 Feature Image by J. Kelly Brito on Unsplash Note: I teach in a district fortunate enough to have a 1:1 program. Therefore, I can implement a Unit 0 completely online knowing my students have access to the technology they need...
by Heather MacCorkle | Aug 2, 2020 | Education, Learning, Teaching, Virtual Learning
Screenshot of a Course I Created in Moodle Put everything online as soon as possible. My school’s LMS is not open yet, so I used a personal Moodle site to capture a screenshot of what I am talking about. Who knew that it would take 45 minutes to do it, but I...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 29, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Teaching, Virtual Learning
POINT is another acronym for unit and lesson planning. You know, we needed one more to beef up the alphabet soup of educational jargon. In a previous blog post about practical considerations for teaching and learning during the COVID-19 crisis, I mentioned yet another...
by Heather MacCorkle | Jul 28, 2020 | Education, Essays, Learning, Teaching
What Is an Enrichment Course? What Is Its Purpose? In the previous post, the enrichment course idea bubbled to the surface as a solution to a problem that courses with end-of-course exams would have if we were to use the 4×4 schedule. There would be a delay between...
