I’m looking forward to a year of honing my teaching skills and catching up! Last year was a year of “immersion” learning: learning of development, marketing and admissions skills at the small school where I work. It was exciting and exhilarating to see my tech skills pay off in ads and postcards–heck, I even scripted [...]
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(A moment of reflection)
I have three tech chore lists going:
the regular (mostly maintenance) chores,
the “keep up” and “keep advancing” with tech changes chores,
and the end of school year chores.
Blogging is actually on the “keep up” and “keep advancing” list. At least, that’s where it was when I started blogging. Re-evaluating where it belongs is [...]
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Welcome, by the way, to those people reading my blog from Mobile Learning or Point blog! It’s really neat that people have found their way here from those sites. I continue to be grateful and thankful for the peer network and feedback I have found at classroom2.0’s ning site.
I’ve been commiserating with my peers [...]
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A math teacher, a science teacher, and a techie …walk up to a Physicist in Kentucky…
No, we’ll actually be contacting the physics department online, rather than face-to-face. The three of us are using some teacher technology training funding to enroll in an online course together. The course allows up to four teachers to work [...]
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It’s a quandary. It’s a conundrum.
Perhaps every generation that experiences a major, powerful change faces this same dilemma. Powerful tools can be dangerous, even when they are extremely useful. Gunpowder. Lasers. Cell phones with cameras.
Cell phones, being fraught with danger? I’m not talking about brain tumors from overuse, either. The [...]
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I haven’t taken the time to blog this week. I’ve been busy exploring, having conversations with colleagues, and trying to answer a question.
Here are some highlights of what I have been doing lately.
I was really excited by Christian Long’s manifesto, and his call for others to join him. I emailed him an idea I [...]
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