Check me out on the IB Community Blog!
Now I know that I’ve made it as a DP teacher. I am quoted in the official IB community blog. (Yes it’s although way down in the 10th paragraph. Behind my friends Joel and Dennis,…
Category Archives: Technology
What is the “Digital World” Anyway?
This year I have been very lucky to be a very small part of an incredibly impressive international team revamping the IBDP Information Technology in a Global Society course. As a part of that work…
Back to the HQ! – (June 2018 Exciting Update!)
Update: Our work is becoming official! The IBDP blog has just announced the upcoming new Digital Society Class. Check it out! I am very proud and so excited. https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2018/06/07/dp-digital-society-is-coming/ So the ITGS redesign is in…
Podcasts in Education (ITGS Project + Ideas)
When I used to build houses I often had to drive around a lot. I was usually in a hurry and, of course, found traffic incredibly frustrating. But I always looked forward to the radio. Often I…
Creating a Digital Utopia
I wanted to share my favorite ITGS project ever that my students and I have developed: Design a digital utopia. I used this project as a fun final “capstone” project for the two year course.…
Life Cycle Consumer Electronic Project, Design to 3D (ITGS – Year 1)
All work below is belongs to ASM ITGS Class of 2017, please contact author for any permissions. (Shadrach thanks them all for their great work and permission to display them here. Great job!) For the…
Intro to Photo Composition Lecture/Lesson (Using Steve McCurry…)
This is a fun photo composition prezi I created as an exercise for the yearbook class. It is mostly from Steve McCurry’s amazing composition video. http://prezi.com/ireco0fue6_o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share http://prezi.com/ireco0fue6_o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
Curriculum Mapping – Information Technology in a Global Society
(Note – this was originally a separate resource page for Digital Society but has now been moved here for archiving purposes). This page serves as my open notebook on my ongoing teaching of ITGS. It…
ITGS Project – The IT Biography of a Patient
So this week I gave a fun project to my 12th ITGS students where they had to create a website that told the story of a Medical Patient’s IT Interactions. I am a big fan…
The Innovators: Ada Lovelace – Kindling the Fire
This year I am teaching the two year IB Diploma course Information Technology in a Global Society (ITGS). One of my goals for my class is to incorporate a bit of history about IT into…