Posted in PLN, blogging on Oct 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
My recent reading has brought me to these two geographically linked posts. The first one mentions Maine teachers and technology and what others see from the outside. Check out Chris Lehmann’s blog and the K12 Online Conference where Dean Shareski made the initial observation about the plethora of great teachers in Maine who are pushing [...]
Posted in PLN, Professional Development, blogging, education, social network, web2.0 on Oct 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Attending ACTEM’s Annual conference.
Just finished up sitting in on Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s keynote address. For me her discussion of the personal learning network and the importance of it validates my goals on getting this network established for myself.
To follow up on this point I have ventured down the hall to Sharon Betts‘ talk on 21st centuring [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, blogging, education, school issues on Sep 30th, 2008 No Comments »
These are my notes and thoughts on the fly from the gathering.
Began with the 20 min introductions. Why? Hey, the views are great from the lobby!
TPCK and SAMR are the latest stuff from MLTI/DOE I can’t wait to hear what they are about.
Jeff M mentioned that they did look at our NoteShare notebooks from last [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, Web 2.0, blogging, education, social network on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
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For those of us who have been wondering why we drive all over the countryside to get training on a particular topic when we seem to have the technology at our disposal to stay put and get all the information that one might need, here is a great opportunity and example of what that might [...]
Posted in PLC, Science, blogging, environment on Sep 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
For those of you who read “The World is Flat” Thomas Friedman and were taken with his predictions on the future of the economy for the world and the roll that technology will play in that “new world” this might be of interest to you.
His latest title is, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, blogging, education, social network on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
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The morning began with a great keynote talk with Jim Moulton (featured above). He gave us plenty to mull over as we individually work on implementing technology in our student’s learning.
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One quote that is sticking with me was about the fact that “schools are not for learning they are for culturalization of students”. There are [...]
Posted in Science, blogging, education, environment on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Today is Blog Action Day. It is an interesting experiment to see what impact a focused effort to blog on one topic will do.
As we look at the environment in our education here at school I am reminded of the presentation that Paul Kando did about “The Inconvenient Truth” for us. It has left my [...]
