At our campus we’ve been working on a professional development strand on student voices, and as I wrote about recently, held student panels in order to get feedback from our student body. One thing I learned during the session is that our students, too, are suffering from information overload and we need to be providing [...]
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Hearing student voices
November 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Learning, Teacher Learner
Our campus staff development started its second strand last week–centered around the theme of authentic student engagement. (Our staff development period is built into the school day once each week). To begin the series, we on the staff development committee decided to invite panels of students to speak to our staff about how they [...]
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Balancing act
October 30th, 2007 · No Comments · ISW2007, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
Yesterday morning (since I woke up at 4 a.m.–still on CST, evidently), I walked down two blocks to the cove at Pacific Grove(near Monterey, California). If you look closely at the photo you can see the seals balanced on the rocks here, scooting themselves onto the boulders in the cove, while the waves crash up [...]
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K12 Online–Putting the “pedagogy into the tools”
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments · k12online 2007, k12online07, Teacher Learner
Last week, we began our campus inservice by viewing Darren Draper’s “Pay Attention” video, which generated some complex discussions. Bill Martin, an English teacher at our campus, commented afterwards that he felt it was critical to be thinking about the pedagogy involved in using the tools that Darren challenges us about in the video. Chris Lehmann and Kristin Hokanson have posted [...]
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Staff development that makes a difference
October 1st, 2007 · No Comments · Staff development, Teacher Learner
I’ve had staff development on the mind lately. In his post “Why Staff Meetings Matter”, Chris Lehmann writes that “a faculty is greater than the sum of its parts.” He goes on to say: “That’s why it’s important to read articles together, build wikis together, agree on school policies together. That’s why it’s important to [...]
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Like schoolkids
September 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Tools, Web 2.0
I feel like a giddy schoolgirl this morning–just having so much fun interacting with other educators around the world who are also giddy about what they are doing. While most of us in the U.S. were sleeping, Jeff Utecht of Thinking Stick in Shanghai was testing out a new site called WizIq (a new site that [...]
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Off to a good start
August 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Change, Future students, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
Today was great. My day started out with my computer “ringing” me because I was being invited to join a Skypecast workshop that Clay Burrell was conducting from Seoul. Pretty neat way to be woken up! (I must be turning into a total geek ) Then at school today, I assisted our principal in [...]
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Beginning anew. . . again
August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Staff development, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
In keeping with the theme of staff development, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at Ken Pruitt’s three questions for school districts, which Scott McLeod highlighted on his blog in July. I’ll take the liberty of re-posting his questions here: What are the 21st century skills we want our teachers to [...]
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What motivates you?
August 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Leadership, Staff development, Teacher Learner
School started in earnest for me on Friday, and I’ve felt a little dispirited. On the one hand, I have learned so much this summer that I am enthused and eager about implementing. But the tasks at hand right now aren’t necessarily those that will even get me there, but things I have to get [...]
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The Long View
August 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Learning, Student projects, Teacher Learner
I’m joining Patrick Higgins today via Skype for a workshop he’s conducting on web 2.0 for teachers in his district. The plan is for me to share the Vietnam Wall project that our English 3 AP students completed last spring, so I’ve been looking through my post about it, re-viewing some of the student projects, [...]
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