Chris Aviles

Nothing gets me more annoyed than an assignment sheet filled with directions on how to create your own poster for an Edgar Allan Poe story.

Listen to the life lessons and words of wisdom coming out of the mouths of sixteen-year-olds.

She allows her students to grade each other and, if students agree on the grade given by their peer, puts it into the gradebook as the final grade.

Take a look at these Tweets and guess what’s under the red bars:

I let them brainstorm and research what the 21st century workspace would look like in the classroom.

I have a folder on Schoology where they can share these pictures and, at the end of the year, I plan on making a slideshow.

Here is how to group your classes in Schoology, or any other LMS, if you have more than one section of the same subject:

I was experimenting on Schoology, as I am wont to do, when I came across an app called Backchannel Chat.

An ARG, or Alternate Reality Game, is a game where you ARE the character in the game, and the game takes place in the real world we live in.

Almost everything on here is free, they all make my life easier, and, most importantly, they enhance my lessons and improve my students’ learning.

Flipping your classroom will not make you a great teacher, nor will all of your students fall so in love with The Flipped Classroom™ that they all become model students.

I believe every good, gamified class must have a Total Points, xp grading system.

I had a great time at NJASA’s Techspo conference.

I love this puzzle so much, I wanted to show you how to make one for your class.

My students are the main characters in a yearlong, real-world, classroom video game.

Gamification is serious business.