Posted in Blogging, Ed Tech, Schools 2.0 on Sep 15th, 2009 9 Comments »
I have long wanted to teach students all the amazing things I have learned while blogging. Recently, I have gotten the opportunity to change my curriculum in my Advanced Computer Applications class. I am now calling the Advanced Computer Applications” class the “21st Century Skills” class.
As an opener I played the class a video created [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Jan 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
Part of my action plan as an attendee of the GTA is to offer a series of free after school workshops for my teachers. On of the Tabs on my blog is the Teacher Academy which is my ideal vision of offering inservice to my teachers.
Unfortunately, the opportunity to make inservice credits is not available [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Nov 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Wow, all I can say is wow. A more cohesive post to follow
The Google Certificate says “Be the change you want to see in the World”. I can’t wait to apply this. One of the things that stands out for me is the Google concept of 80% -20%. All employees are encouraged to take 20% [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Nov 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Since Jeff Utecht’s post about reflection (that spurred me to invest more time reflecting) and the fabulous post of David Hamilton in “Principally Yours” about refelection I have been thinking a lot……about reflection!
I have been furiously ripping through my aggregator as of late to re-visit some key topics of Web 2.0’s impact on education and [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Nov 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I just had to call attention to Kim Cofino’s last post on professional development. I was actually in a deep discussion today with several educators about the validity of professional development and how often is is transformative.
Posted in Ed Tech on Nov 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
Models of Professional Development, originally uploaded by superkimbo in BKK.
I just had to call attention to Kim Cofino’s last post on professional development. I was actually in a deep discussion today with several educators about the validity of professional development and how often is is transformative.
I really appreciated Kim’s Diagram of the network of Professional [...]
Posted in 21st century Learning, Ed Tech, SLA, Schools 2.0, Web 2.0 on Oct 28th, 2008 No Comments »
technology should be ubiquitous and invisible
Posted in Blogging, Ed Tech, Google Teacher Academy, Web 2.0 on Oct 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
Google wiki, originally uploaded by Jenn Cronk.
Really quick snippet:
Woot! I am in the Google Teacher Academy! I am so excited! I was on Skype with Jeff Whipple who mentioned two others that he knew of. So then I checked my Twitter and found a few more which led me to this site that was created not more [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Oct 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
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Well I am dying to go to this workshop. I know some colleagues who have gone and they have grown in leaps and bounds using the tools for Google Educators.
As part of the application we all need to submit a video no more than a minute long. The topic I chose was motivation and learning. [...]
Posted in Ed Tech on Oct 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
last week I had started a post that was inspired by Jeff Utecht’s post on Reflection time. Reflecting is an essential part of being a successful educator, but I find very often that most teachers (myself included) are often stuck in survival mode and doing just the immediate tasks rather than being proactively broadening their own knowledge.
I know when [...]
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