Do you find it easier to share resources and ideas with like-minded people in your pln (personal learning network) than with colleagues in the next classroom who may not be as active online?
During a visit to the magnet school “The Science Leadership Adademy” in Philadelphia in April 2010 Bill Gates said that schools need to [...]
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I was inspired to finally read tribes after stumbling into an elluminate session with Seth Godin hosted by Steve Hargadon. The archive of the session can be found here
In the last paragraph of the book, Seth asks “spread the word”. I intend to hand it on to my 17 year [...]
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Capturing ideas has been on my mind lately. I use evernote when working, but I often get the best ideas away from my computer either while on a walk or on a bike ride. I usually have my phone with me, I [...]
After a tip off on twitter (thanks @thomasdaccord) I found out Daniel Pink was on a quickie book tour and was going to be at Borders in Boston Wed Jan 6th at 1pm.
Having enjoyed AWNM and Johnny Bunko-I’m so there, methinks.
Tosh, I have an online meeting scheduled for PLC work at the exact same time. Luckily [...]
Amazing things that happened in 2009
Educon even only virtually
Keeping up with my blog
Staff technology showcase at school
Henry Jenkins at MIT in May
Going to NECC in June in Washington
Meeting many pln peeps and tweeps irl
Asking a question via twitter to Malcolm Gladwell on live radio
It was fun to be included in the David Pogue book, the world according to [...]
I just added a new rss feed to my “all in one place” place.
It was one of those, why didn’t I do this sooner, slap head moments.
I got the idea after a brief exchange in a chatroom between Jackie Gerstein and Joyce Valenza on liveclass2.0 on Saturday. The topic of the day was diigo. Jackie mentioned how she often [...]
The latest Digital Literacy Challenge features Hippocampus.org . This can be a real timesaver for teachers of the subjects listed. This is a one stop additional multimodal learning resource for their class. For the challenge, students are asked to choose a topic from the menu
They are then required to find the list of videos aligned to the [...]
This youtube video about using twitter in the college classroom came to my attention from a retweet by @edutopia to student’s blogpost at Butler Collision Repair Blog
This is really worth taking the time to watch. It explains how twitter can be used to encourage deeper student participation in a discussion when they are in a [...]
Attended a free webinar from O’Reilly media Thursday hosted by Dan Meyer, a math teacher from Santa Cruz. The seminar was boldly title “How to save Math Education”
Even if you are not a math teacher, this is talking about getting students to think…and applies to all teachers really. It’s just hidden in a math webinar.
Dan [...]
This is a guest post by Rachael Costello, high school librarian. Her library orientation lesson for freshman is packed with options, engagement, and interactivity. Glogster provides the platform for delivery, but Rachael fills it with her ideas and productions. I wish all students had such a thorough introduction to their school library, thinking especially about [...]
