Cohort 21 | bnichols | Mentions https://cohort21.com/members/bnichols/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning bnichols. Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:13:21 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-CA 30 hourly 2 0179571c9840270be38c5003e0d415ea Ruth Eichholtz wrote a new post on the site deviating from the mean http://cohort21.com/rutheichholtz/?p=209 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:18:40 -0500 Outside education, everyone assumes that it must be easy for teachers to measure our students’ learning. Just give them a test, right? As insiders, we know it isn’t this straightforward. Like @bnichols has pointed […]

]]> 2 c8c2d0426018efae5302d13552f5572f Justin Medved posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/bethnichols/2016/10/23/beginnings-of-problem-based-learning/#comment-23 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:23:59 -0400 @bnichols Thank you SO much for sharing your PD reflection with us. As more and more CIS Ontario school experiment with PBL this sharing becomes invaluable. What have your students found most challenging? What new skills to they require to be sucessful? @lmiller @reicholtz @gnichols

In reply to - bnichols wrote a new post on the site Beth Nichols I’m planning to use this space to talk about what it’s like to teach Grade 9 math using problem-based learning (PBL) at my school. I hope to be honest about my […] ]]> 019f1c877cc24943d064960423be8f80 Celeste Kirsh posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/pattikleeb/2015/02/10/kidblog-has-anyone-used-it/#comment-15 Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:48:41 -0500 Hey Patti,

You might also want to touch base with @bnichols to see what she uses as a platform for her student blogging!

CK

In reply to - pkleeb wrote a new post on the site Patti Kleeb I love Wordpress, but apparently it’s not secure enough to use with my students. Edublogs, the Wordpress site for schools, now charges $99.00 per blog to keep it […] ]]> caacbb206d8bc30b4712b7f698b1b8c6 Derek Doucet posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/pattikleeb/2015/02/10/kidblog-has-anyone-used-it/#comment-10 Fri, 13 Feb 2015 01:35:44 -0500 Hi Patti,
What’s great is that you’re getting your students to blog!! I haven’t used KidBlog – we use Blogger with my students, but as @adamcaplan mentioned on Twitter – ” Sharing and publishing in classrooms will be, to the next 10 years, what reflection was to the previous 10. #youhearditherefirst #cohort21″
So I would say that you’re on the…Read more

In reply to - pkleeb wrote a new post on the site Patti Kleeb I love Wordpress, but apparently it’s not secure enough to use with my students. Edublogs, the Wordpress site for schools, now charges $99.00 per blog to keep it […] ]]> c0517f3979606a7a29beb0e93932d738 Derek Doucet posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/marcusdown/2015/01/23/boom-goes-the-dynamite-or-almost/#comment-2 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:34:05 -0500 Hey Marcus,
Great post! You pose some fantastic questions and did you know that @bnichols is also looking at reflection and feedback through blogging. You should check out her recent post on it http://cohort21.com/bethnichols/2015/01/15/action-plan-reflection-growth-and-blogs/.

If you’re looking to use Goobric, you can talk to me,…Read more

In reply to - mdown wrote a new post on the site Marcus Down It is well documented that feedback is one of the most important tools used by teachers to enhance student learning. I have always had the mindset that feedback […] ]]> 2e4a24ed7e7f51d58dbe47d7c9687e08 Derek Doucet posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/melissarathier/2015/01/07/flipped-classroom-2-0/#comment-11 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 05:47:39 -0500 Hey Rath,
Great post! I think the use of either of the tools you mentioned will have good results and will provide you with data that will allow you to assess where to go next with each student in your classes.

Reflection is a big piece of the learning pie, and perhaps there’s something in that would make flipping the learning more…Read more

In reply to - Melissa Rathier wrote a new post on the site Melissa Rathier I have been lucky enough to teach the same courses (Grade 11 & 12 Chemistry) for my entire 15 year career, which may sound like an absolute nightmare, […] ]]> ea84c05f0a1089a1ac0ab2bbef7d1aef Derek Doucet posted a new activity comment http://cohort21.com/megwallace/2015/01/14/sharing-the-love/#comment-19 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 05:07:49 -0500 Amazing!! I was wondering about the same sort of action plan and was telling @brenthurley that I wanted to know if I could collaborate with someone from C21. So happy that you’re jumping on this adventure and I want to join you!

It’ll be neat to research and design a program that could help people with a combination of Self-Directed PD & in…Read more

In reply to - mwallace wrote a new post on the site Meg Wallace There are good ways, bad ways, right ways and wrong ways to do just about anything. But what about the ‘best’ way? I’m an ideas person, so I knew that coming up […] ]]>