I suppose in the pursuit of one's career, a person finally becomes opinionated strongly enough about certain things they decide they need to flood the internet with yet more opinions. Perhaps people will listen. Most likely, this blog will disappear in obscurity and ignored by most.
But none of that matters to me. Not anymore. When sunshine leaves the world, you stumble in the dark and do your best to minimize the scars and scratches and scrapes one incurs in the process.
So I want to refocus in two ways in this 'professional' blog related to education.
1) I want to establish and grow a Teachers Pay Teachers website. I have developed several resources I believe are worthwhile and good. In addition, it will hopefully help encourage me to improve the lessons I offer my students and by proxy, others.
There are problems in this: I teach mostly using the Haiku LMS, which is my school's choice. I really like Haiku. It's good. But where does it fit into a TpT store? How many people would use electronic copies for online course work? I foresee a lot of multiple choice questions being my offerings. But is there a market for there?
2) I want to explore and develop a 'gamified' course. Personally, I've always thought Physical Science would be best to start this. It's modular and fits well with this mode. There's lots of options of things to do, but many of these are limited by the medium you use to do it.
I came across this website, http://lectora.com/blog/thursdays-trending-e-learning-topic-gamification/, and if you follow the first link on the entry, it has a list of 4 items.
One of those items is Easter Eggs. Hidden mini-games and the like that keep students from just clicking through the information presented.
Not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all.
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