iTeach and iLearn

It is almost the end of the semester--I had my second to last class meeting for World Regional Geography today. I'm pleased, overall, at...

I often tell the students in my Education courses, "Questions are good! We love questions!" This usually comes up in conversations...

Over the past 20 years I've served as a professional educator, my thoughts on basic knowledge and skills have fluctuated. Early in my ...

Those of you who are regular readers may know how much I love geography. I think maps are cool. (I was that geeky kid studying the maps in t...

Image by Enrique Flouret [CC BY 2.0] I have shared my love of geography here before, and though I'm not a geography teacher in an o...

One of my most-viewed posts to date is titled " Eight Helpful Resources for Teaching Geography ." I'm glad this was--apparentl...

I love  geography. I was that weird kid in 7th grade who would not be reading along with the class because he was looking in the back of his...

A screengrab from Wictionary.org I will not pretend to meet the above definition of polyglot in any way. I am effectively monolingual; ...

Image by johnantoni CC BY-SA 2.0 In 2004, Meic Pearse published a book entitled Why the Rest Hates the West: Understanding the Roots of...

Heifer Village: Nepal is an interactive simulation to help students think about poverty and community development. In some ways, it's s...

I was talking with a friend and fellow teacher the other day and she was sharing how appalled she was at her students' lack of geographi...

In case you are running stuck with things for your middle schooler (or high schooler, or yourself...) to do over Christmas Break, let me enc...