Our cohort created this handbook to the 1:1 classroom as part of our Course 4 learning. Please feel free to add your thoughts, advice and tips!

Well, I finally did it! I have Twitter account, @chopkins67.

What pushed me over the edge? (Yes I do feel as if Twitter was a cliff I was not ready to jump off, until now.) A book – A Tiger in the Kitchen. It […]

There’s already been so much interest about our second YIS COETAIL cohort that we’ve started to organize dates next school year. Please fill out this quick survey to get future updates!

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For my COETAIL Course 5 Final Project, I had the great privilege of collaborating with a terrific teacher and good buddy, Josh Kettell (@JWKettell), as we took an adventure down the road of the “flipped classroom” […]

As the year comes to a close I am reflecting on this year, planning for a summer of fun with my daughter, family and friends and yes, thinking about next school year already. (Note to any reader – this post is a […]

Through collaboration with James, Rock, Michelle , Ben and Andrew, who are all teachers with me at Taipei American School, we revised and updated the AUP for grades 3-5.  We initially looked at the current TAS AUP […]

Acceptable Use Policy

As we approached this final project it got me thinking about  what do we really mean by acceptable use and why must it be a “Policy”. I know that legally the school must have a policy in […]

I would just like to take a moment to reflect on some of the changes in our lives over the last say 30 years. I was reminded of it this week because a student asked if I could be interviewed for the school paper, […]

I was pretty excited to get the chance to go to a one-to-one laptop school. In a certain sense, you’ve reached the big time. You’ve finally made it. At some point in the process of getting familiar with the […]

ever since i was a kid, people have been talking about how the computer was going to change the world. but nobody seemed to know exactly how that was going to happen, and nobody had any idea of what was going to […]

After nearly two years of one to one experience, I have settled on using mainly OneNote, as the primary method of giving notes and information to my students. I have attempted to use PowerPoint presentations […]

I watched a video today about creativity which made me think about some of the purposes of education and the role of creativity both in modern times and from a historical perspective. The video can be found […]

As I have been gathering more information on flipping the classroom I have come across a few things that I wanted to share. One thing I came across was a video from Salmon Khan, who has an interesting history […]

I work at a school that is one-to-one laptop and we of the science department are known to be particularly proficient at using our computers in class. Nevertheless, to my knowledge there is not a single class that […]

I have taken a lab for determine the acceleration of objects down an inclined plane and modified so that the students across the entire school will be able to share their data through the creation of a google doc, […]

People always say that the job market is getting more complicated and getting a good job is becoming harder and harder. Despite the obvious difficulty of getting a job during tough economic times, I doubt that the […]

Ok, ok. So suppose I am a pirate. How and when did my diabolical life of crime begin?

It all started when we first got the Apple IIc with the old floppy disks that were so easy to copy. My friends and I became […]

I found myself in class the other day trying to do an analysis of a physics lab with my students. But knowing that they don’t have a lot of experience thinking about where errors come from in a lab, I was […]