Posted in education on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
A weekend of play!!
Here I have two articles that have come across my digital landscape in the last week. They are of interest on a personal level as I try and navigate the options for my children’s education. It is this sort of belief about development that has helped with some of the decisions.
Both these [...]
Posted in PLC, education on Jan 29th, 2009 3 Comments »
Here is a link to an interesting panel discussion about issues that we are having to deal with nation wide and I am faced with it here in my classroom.
http://www.scienceleadership.org/~clehmann/test.html
This panel gathered at the EduCon conference last week in Philadelphia. What a great experience the conference must have been. May be will get there one [...]
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 education, school issues, social network on Sep 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh
Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 23, @11:26PM
from the think-of-the-children dept.
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials have enacted a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work. District spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said, the 50 percent minimum [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, Web 2.0, education, social network on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
WRITING MATTERS
This appears to be a super resource for teachers and students around writing. As a teacher it appears to be not only a resource with ideas and lessons but also a platform for publishing work online.
There are a multitude of ways to put material on the web (this blog is an example) but when [...]
Posted in MLCI, Professional Development, Science, education, environment, social network, web2.0 on Sep 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Youth and the Natural World
This looks like a great companion to all the technology workshops that I attend. It is nice that this is happening in Maine and that Gov. Baldacci is trying to to bring attention to this issue.
After reading Last Child in the Woods, which from a teaching point of view the first [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, Web 2.0, blogging, education, social network on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
k12onlineflyer_letter
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 education, school issues on Sep 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I found a good reminder from Wes Fryer about private and sensitive communications over email and how as teachers we need to be aware of the “leaky” nature of email.
Speed of Creativity
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Posted in education, school issues on Sep 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading this article from my RSS feed got me thinking about our recess situation at Appleton. I feel that our school has stuck with recess for our middle school students, even with all the other pressures out there in the education day. I see it as a tremendous benefit for the kids but having to [...]
