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: Video
Ira Glass on Creative Work
Connect, Extend, Challenge Connect: How are ideas presented related to something you like or are interested in making? Extend: What new ideas did you get that extended or pushed your thinking in new directions? Challenge: What is still challenging or … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Featured, Video
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WW1 Veteran speaks of the Gallipoli landing
Jack Hazlitt describes his landing at Gallipoli See-Think-Wonder What do you see? What do you think about that? What does it make you wonder?
Skipping Challenge
This American Middle School engages and stimulates its female students with skipping. Continue reading
Posted in Physical Education, Psychology, Video
Tagged Naval Academy, Skipping rope, Team Work
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Animal Animations
The little clip below shows a few clever ways animals. props and videos were used to “write” a graphic illustration. You can get your heads around this a few different ways using the See-Think-Wonder routine. You might explore “how” it … Continue reading
Posted in See-Think-Wonder, Video
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Water Buffalo Gift
Background Jazz violinist Robert Thompson was motivated by a blog post to see if he could do something real. This video is his story and that of a family in China and a community around the world. See-Think-Wonder What do … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Geography, Service Learning, Video
Tagged China, Gift, Water Buffalo
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Twitter to Flutter!!!!!!!
How did Flutter evolve? What is an advantage of Flutter over Twitter? What is the discussion really about? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask a question related to your claim
I Love the World – Earth Day
Earth Day was invented so that people would appreciate the amazing planet we call home. View the promotional video and use the prompt below. You might want to either comment on the earth’s awesomeness or the effectiveness of the video. … Continue reading
What a voice! Who’s to Judge?
What do you think the people watching Susan Boyle are thinking before she begins to sing? What does this say about how we perceive and evaluate others? Claim-Support-Question Make a claim about the topic Identify support for your claim Ask … Continue reading
Mankind is no Island
View this video made by filmmakers using camera phones See-Think-Wonder What’s one significant thing you noticed? What does it make you think about? What does this make you wonder about yourself or the world?
Learned Helplessness
See – Think – Wonder What did you see that didn’t make sense? What do you think is the message about these people? Wonder how this might relate to students or young people?