Daily Archives: September 21, 2008

Turning Learning Goals into Significant Learning

I have been working on instructional goals for a class assignment.  I am reworking my Dreamweaver classes based on backwards design and Fink’s significant learning, and I am struggling with how to translate my goals into significant learning.  I want to teach my students more than Dreamweaver; my students must learn how to use Dreamweaver [...]

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Goodbye Summer

I missed a lot of summer.  I spent so much time working and studying that I missed summer.  It is a shame, but at least I spent a lot of time with my kids. Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — [...]

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