About Tom
Tom March has been "working the Web" and contributing "Bright Ideas for education" since 1994. It all started with WebQuests and continued from there to include a range of other Web-based teaching formats, tools like Filamentality and Web-and-Flow and an emphasis on quality as seen in BestWebQuests. These days, Tom focuses on supporting systemic change toward 1:1 digital learning. Primarily this means The Edge-ucators Way and CEQ•ALL as main components of "Next Era Ed."Bright Ideas
Core Strategies
- Next Era Ed Overview (pdf)
- The Edge-ucators Way
- Look to Learn
- ClassPortal
- WebQuests & WQ 2.0
CEQ•ALL
- CEQ•ALL Overview
- Research Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
Category Archives: Agenda
ISV Series – Day 2
Welcome to Day 2! Welcome back. I hope you’ve had a nice autumn holidays and beginning to Term 2. Also that you’ve had a chance to trial Look to Learn activities with your students and colleagues. Today we’ll begin with … Continue reading
ISV Series – Day 1
Welcome! It’s a pleasure to be able to work with you over the year through a series of sessions. This is a great way to take new ideas, practice with them and try them out with students and staff, then … Continue reading
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AGQTP / ISV Day 5 Celebration
Welcome to our Showcase Day Over the year I have really enjoyed working with the participants in ISV’s AGQTP project on Leveraging Web 2.0 Tools for Authentic Learning. Agenda Gather Sites Reflection Showcase Presentations Next Steps in Professional Learning Feedback … Continue reading
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WebQuests Day 1
Getting WebQuests The following is a WebQuest designed to introduce educators to both the lived experience of a WebQuest as well as some of the challenges and opportunities we face in 21st Century schools. Introduction “In the beginning, there was … Continue reading
Day 5 – Showcase & CEQ•ALL
Welcome! As the final day in the 5-Day Series, we 1) showcase participants’ work and 2) focus on supporting student self-managed learning. Activity 1: Case Studies of Participants’ Work Please use the comments link on this post to submit a … Continue reading
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WebQuest Day
Quick Brainstorm What are WebQuests? – stick up your thoughts Introduction Tom’s presentation & discussion Example: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? and handout Big Wide World WebQuest Bernie Dodge’s QuestGarden Tom’s Ghostly BestWebQuests.com ASUS eee Transformer vs iPad2 YouTube Comparison Edge-ucators … Continue reading
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Day 3 – ClassPortals
Introduction Tom’s Intro ClassPortals… Focus on one compelling topic (with all its interesting connections to others) Embody a passionate interest of the teacher and students Continue in the background of class activities drawing attention when something in the real world … Continue reading
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Edge-ucators Team Meeting #1
Welcome! Good the see you all again – in person! Here’s a handout / agenda Review / Q & A Online survey Action Research It has been said, “Teachers often leave a mark on their students, but they seldom leave … Continue reading
Early Years Day 3
Welcome Everyone! Look to Learn – Review and Feedback Look to Learn Strategy Example: JabberRumpus Did you use with students? Response? Comments link used by students, parents, grandparents, cross-age mentors? We Add a comment about use – surf to activities … Continue reading
Early Years Day 2
Welcome Early Years Educators! Review Conceptual Questions: What makes web 2.0 good for learning? What makes Web 2.0 difficult for “schools?” Add to Stixyboard? What does Rene say? Strategies Look to Learn How can we use Web 2? – a … Continue reading