After 20 years of teaching at Brookfield Central, I am saying goodbye. Although I spent the majority of that time in the physics classroom alongside my learners. That changed for my last 18 weeks. I ended up in a place similar to where I started, teaching chemistry and biology. So, rather than dealing with juniors and seniors at the end of their high school careers, I was in classrooms with freshmen and sophomores still trying to find their place. At the same time, I was learning and teaching a set curriculum I hadn't taught in over a decade. So, we were learning. But, of course, I already knew the content. The point of this post is to take a step back, reflect, and share the gratitude from the last students I had in my 20 years at Brookfield Central High School, as expressed through the cards and notes they made for me on my last day with them. I don't take many "yay me" moments. But after 20 years, I'll soak this one in.
ComicCon just wrapped up last weekend in San Diego. Millions of dollars were poured into this convention. The ultimate goal of was to promote multimedia properties and get consumers to spend their money when these properties are released and on products at the show. Yes, it is a”show”. The sessions at Comic Con are highly attended and pirated versions occasionally pop up on the internet to the chagrin of the studios, who financed those "one-and-done" presentations, and fans who attended those sessions. Little bits of media flow out to the lowly masses. My favorite is the one below. A very different type of convention occurred in Park City, Utah a month ago. InstructureCon is not a place where Hollywood celebrities go to build hype their latest film. At InstructureCon, the stars are the educators and designers who are on the cutting edge of learning management system (LMS) integration in education. The specific LMS the...