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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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 [...]
I will be joining educators worldwide at the k12 online conference 2009 over the next three weeks. No travel required, attendance flexible, learning inevitable. Join us, the schedule is posted here, however if you get there late, don’t worry, the presentations will be waiting for you.
The keynote below was published this morning and provided a great [...]
You can tell I’m a teacher, because one of the things I love about the holidays is being able to share the gift of reading. Yup, I’m the aunt that always sends books, the Mom that makes the Christmas Eve gift a book and the wife that points her husband in the direction of the [...]
I was asked by a colleague if I still had a copy of a wordle I created last April for a school faculty that I no longer work for. I knew that I had emailed it, but I didn’t have access to that account. The wordle site works without accounts so unless you have the [...]
Creativity is messy, doodling is good. Peter Reynolds, nominated entrepreneur of the year from fablevision has given 16 year olds everywhere the ultimate excuse (especially the one sitting in a messy room upstairs at my house).
I heard the good news during my massCUE conference highlight- a session with Peter Reynolds talking about creativity and imagination and by [...]
Conference Crashing 101
Massachusetts Computer using educators annual conference takes place this week. To have one place to monitor, listen and watch what is going on I created a public page on netvibes that monitors the tags masscue and masscue09.
As soon as actual attendees post online via twitter, flickr, delicious, diigo, and blogs, it will feed to [...]
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 [...]
It continues to amaze me how the learning network that I am immersed in seems to have a life of its own. This was the conversation it was having this weekend.
I was reading this brave post by Lisa Thumann “I just don’t like technology” about how to deal with a comment from a professional [...]
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 [...]
