Nov
22
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 …
Nov
19
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 …
Nov
04
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 …
Oct
31
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 …
Oct
27
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 …
Oct
27
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 …
Oct
19
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 …
Oct
09
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 …
Oct
04
Watching my twitter feed and email account, I have been saving up these notices about free upcoming online professional development and I am excited by how my calendar is so full of great opportunities to learn. I thought it would be useful to consolidate them into one post and share it out. This is low-hanging …
Oct
03
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 …
I'm Lindsey Barlow, online learning designer & trainer. What do you want to teach? Because... I like to design courses.
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