WeTransfer your images and video

April 18, 2016

Students most frequently use cell phones for capturing images and videos for inclusion in IB work. These can be huge not only from the file size of each image or length of each video, but also from the sheer number that a student may wish to transfer to the teacher,...

Murakami: reading the texts, playing the game–which sends you back to the texts

March 18, 2016

There is no question that the stories of Haruki Murakami are provocative. They are also very popular with students who read them as Literature in Translation. It’s hard to ignore the student appeal of short stories with titles like ‘On Seeing the 100%...

Do Mock Exams Help Our Students?

March 9, 2016

First I must apologize to those of you in the southern hemisphere.  The November session is eons away for you, but for those of us north of the Equator (or south but on the northern school schedule) the IB exams are now 2 months away.  Many schools choose March as the...

The HL option and Paper 3

January 27, 2016

Happy New Year to all of you!  The weather has definitely changed course for most of you, and while most of my posts have been written with a blue sky and warm temperatures, the mountains of New Mexico have had near-record amounts of snow and the temperatures have...

“Stuff your eyes with wonder.”

January 18, 2016

The title comes from Ray Bradbury, according to the blog connected to ‘The Big Read,’ a website from the American National Endowment for the Arts. If it’s not familiar you may find some very useful (as well as delightful) materials there. A number of...

Teaching and Learning with Technology: the document

January 11, 2016

At the beginning of December 2015 the IB published a new document online, Teaching and Learning with Technology. You can read the whole document online as a web page, or download an executive summary as a pdf file. The first paragraph of the summary introduces readers...