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 [...]
Posted in PLC, Professional Development, education on Sep 2nd, 2008 4 Comments »
Now here is a kick off keynote for educators all!
Do you believe in yourself?
Dalton Sherman is a 5th grade student who gets the job done!
Dalton Sherman keynote
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Posted in PLC, Professional Development, education, social network, web2.0 on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
This is a great post about education networks, both individual and community, and the important role that they can play for our teaching and learning. I am trying to get myself up to speed on networking but find it a challenge at times.
http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=604#comment-25756
The post looks at the added value that one brings to their professional [...]
Posted in Professional Development, education, social network, web2.0 on Nov 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
If you have not seen this here it is!
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Posted in Science, education on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
An anonymous reader writes “Most of us have heard of string theory, many of us know what it is and some of us may even be experts in the field. But could you explain it in two minutes? The discovery channel recently had a contest to do precisely that: create a two minute or less [...]
