Do teaching simulations have to be high tech and costly to be effective? We don’t think so! Here are the slides from today’s talk and some links as resources. Teacher Moments Slides AACTE2018 <– click for slides from March 3 2018 Teacher Moments <– click for the Teacher Moments site Practice Spaces for Teaching -<– click for all ∞

Noteworthy Apps in VR Jan 2018 What’s going on at MIT Collaborative Learning Environments in VR https://education.mit.edu/portfolio_page/clevr Overviews on VR “From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning” – Eric’s upcoming talk 1/25/18 Clay Bavor, google’s vp of vr+ar, giving a display talk in june. One quote from it: “VR can ∞

The reflection of the moon in the pond is a reflection of a reflection – the pond reflects the moon, which reflects the sun. sometimes reflect and regret are so close- that they almost touch (Reflecting is something I often do. Perhaps too much. ) Sometimes I reflect someone who is so bright – I ∞

While I am not a mushroom fanatic, I have been amazed at all of the mushrooms I have noticed this year! I take pictures of the really neat ones, and give them names based on what they look like.

Games are useful tools for teaching and learning. Here are two presentations I did at the NSTA STEM conference in Kississimee on games for learning. NSTA STEM game design July 13 2017 NSTA STEM Art of Teaching Through Games

OK, so it’s time to share our day to day in Iceland, as well as a few travel tips. Travel tip #1 – Pack a few extra vowels. Yes, not towels, but vowels. There are so many consonants in Icelandic! Most everything is in English too. You will start to notice some trends in words ∞