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August 26, 2008Dear TeacherThis has appeared before but is still current. Teachers often wait years to hear from their students about how their instruction, mentoring and caring has impacted their students. Here is a guess as to what some might say. August 12, 2008Studying to be a teacher, new options here!I had a chance to talk and share with a preservice teacher today. For those of our international readers a preservice teacher is one who is still taking courses and hasn't been full-time in a classroom. An intern, a student teacher. Hm, what do I share in a short time? Enough to engage, not too much to overwhelm, and then off she goes, leaving me an email address to continue a conversation. Continue reading "Studying to be a teacher, new options here!" » July 29, 2008NECC08 lives on, I'll show you where!Last year I wrote about NECC07 and steered people to all the great resources one can take advantage of once the official NECC conference is over. NECC08 lives on July 15, 2008Assistive Technology goes Mainstream!While thinking about a plan for this blogpost and preparing for a summer week of professional development for my staff I came upon Karen Janowski's website and UDL toolkit. July 1, 2008Guess who is coming to dinner?What happens when you invite one person to dinner in San Antonio, NECC 2008? 52 diners show up! No this is not a bad dream, it is a reality. Thanks to Deb Boisvert for this inspiration! June 17, 2008Dear student, (put your own name here)This is a continuation of my last post Dear Administrator. This post first appeared when I was a guest blogger at Wes Fryer's Speed of Creativity last year. Dear student,
June 3, 2008Dear Administrator Redux,
I wrote this a year ago. See how much has changed. May 20, 2008What Does Graduation Mean to You?For those of us with family members and friends finishing up their school year or school career we are also celebrating graduations. May 6, 2008Signs of Spring in EducationHow do we demonstrate transitions in education? For those of us in the northern hemisphere we begin school in late August or early September and finish in late May or late June. It is always fun to be on Twitter and listening and observing our friends in New Zealand, Australia and China as they talk about tomorrow or the opposite season depending upon their time zone and geographic place on the planet. April 22, 2008Celebrate Earth Day April 22, 2008Earth Day is celebrated worldwide on April 22, it began as an environmental teach-in during the spring of 1970. There are many web pages dedicated to Earth Day on the web. However, my search for kid and teen friendly earth day pages brought several I would like to share. April 8, 2008I am a technology omnivore, what are you?On my way home the other day, in my car, I wasn't listening to a podcast but rather to National Public Radio- live-, All things Considered with Robert Siegel. Continue reading "I am a technology omnivore, what are you?" » March 25, 2008Suppose you had to teach at your school for a week without technologyLast post I reminded many of you about managing attendance or grading the "old" way. This post continues with my theme from a couple of weeks ago. Let's look into some classrooms at your schools to see or listen to the conversations.... Continue reading "Suppose you had to teach at your school for a week without technology" » March 11, 2008"I don't have time to learn anything more with technology." comment overheard in many classrooms worldwideTurn back the clock to 1996, if it were February 26, 2008How technologically green are you? How technologically green are you while teaching your students?This blog post is very different from most of our blog entries for the TechLearning team. We usually have blog posts introducing you to something that happens in classrooms or schools which could have implications for your students. Today is a little deviation. February 12, 2008I can't wait until Thursday to join 5th graders at lunch!For the past 6 weeks, I've been working with 5th grade students, 120 of them, and their teachers on an Internet Safety Project which included discussions about cyberbullying and has since morphed into conversations and instruction about proper use of images harvested from the internet, creative commons and beginning today, how to determine the validity of a website during a research project. Continue reading "I can't wait until Thursday to join 5th graders at lunch!" » January 22, 2008....... because it is the right thing to do for our students in the 21st Century.Recently, some of us who work with in-service professional development projects and with teachers have had an ongoing conversation about how to approach teachers with ideas for technology so as to make it more common and not so high tech. January 15, 2008A snow day in the blogosphere?How can a snow day in one part of the country affect other parts of the planet? January 1, 2008What a difference a day makes or does it?In a few short hours, 24 to be exact, the world as we know it has moved from the year 2007 to the year 2008. New cars are ready to roll off the assembly line, and we are reminded of that through television ads, newspaper and magazine marketing and even digital advertising. Continue reading " What a difference a day makes or does it?" » December 18, 2007Come Eavesdrop on Some Great Conversations!I have to share these ongoing conversations. Kevin started this project at Seedlings K12online conference . The project is part of an ongoing conversation, Boil Down Your Day Into a Sentence. Continue reading "Come Eavesdrop on Some Great Conversations!" » December 4, 2007Who reads these bloggers @ techlearning.com/blog?I was looking at the Question of the Week that techlearning publishes each week. I wanted to see what the audience demographics were looking like. Now, I am NOT a statistician, but in looking at the surveys and making meaning of them, this is my take on YOU the readers out in cyberspace. Continue reading "Who reads these bloggers @ techlearning.com/blog?" » November 20, 2007Teacher Only Day in New Zealand= Professional Development in USA and CanadaI love working with teachers during Professional Development days, or as our friends in New Zealand say, teacher only days. Continue reading "Teacher Only Day in New Zealand= Professional Development in USA and Canada" » November 6, 2007The Opposite of my Internet Safety Presentation to ParentsOr Internet Safety with 21st Century Tools on the WWW This evening I am presenting a short interactive presentation to our middle school parents. The request from the principal was to discuss Internet Safety. I do have a great presentation using some Youtube video's (which I will have to unblock at the middle school), a great video from kidssafe.org and some links and articles that Bob Sprankle and I put together last winter when we made a similar presentation to parents at the elementary school. Oh, you are probably wondering where Terry Freedman is this week, well, he had something come up and asked if I would take this week and here I am! Terry will be back next week with something fantastic I am sure. Continue reading "The Opposite of my Internet Safety Presentation to Parents" » October 30, 2007It is about the teaching and learning!This past week I had the good fortune to spend the day in 7th grade language arts classes to assist with the introduction of ibooks and NeoOffice to our students. |
