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A Teacher’s Guide to Personal Devices in Class
Anything can be a distraction in class, but one that has received a great deal of attention has been personal devices and smartphones. I purchased my first data activated smart phone about 11 years ago when I was in my mid twenties. Now I see students who are younger than 10 years who have a... Continue Reading →
Video Games: An Educational Exploration by a Teacher/Gamer/Graduate Student
On my fifth birthday I received a Nintendo Entertainment System which came with Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. Eventually I moved up to other systems such as a Sega Genesis and a Super Nintendo. I even played some of the first massive multiplayer online games such as Ultima Online and Everquest as a teenager. So naturally growing up, video games were part of my life. Image... Continue Reading →
Breaking Down My Book Cover Challenge
The “Book Cover Challenge” is a challenge that has been going around Twitter in 2019. It basically is a week long process where you post the cover of a book that you have enjoyed without a review for seven days while nominating someone else to do the challenge each time that you post. I was... Continue Reading →
Board Games
It’s a cold winter Saturday night in Winnipeg. The hometown hockey team, the Winnipeg Jets are not playing, with the Saturday time slot on Hockey Night in Canada usually taken by the Toronto Maple Leafs and other Canadian NHL teams. At my kitchen table sit a couple of teachers, a welder, an accountant, and a... Continue Reading →
Multimedia, Technology, Video Games, and Learning 