Learning Blog

I received this e-mail today and thought that some of the folks who have attended my presentations on Global Collaboration might find it interesting:
American Councils continues to be privileged to administer the Teachers of Critical Languages Program of the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.  We are pleased to announce that applications to [...]

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Much of the past six months I spent searching and hiring new staff members for my department. In what felt endless at times, we hired a Lower School Technology Coordinator, a Technical Support Specialist and an Administrative Assistant. The second two of these positions were new and/or redefined as well. They both [...]

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It’s Spring Break. The kids (and teachers) are gone for two weeks… Today has been very quiet. It’s been quite a productive day. Last year at this time, I was running around fixing things and installing new hardware/software. This year, I’m catching up on posting audio files, cleaning out my [...]

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If you haven’t checked out the School 2.0 interview series that Steve Hargadon had been doing, you’re missing out.
This interview with John Seely Brown challenges my thoughts about education and gave me wonderful ideas on how to begin to explain the shift to my colleagues. This one is getting burnt to CDs and [...]

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I’m working on a technology self-assessment for our faculty. We’ve collected a number of surveys from the Independent School community and are using them as a base to create our own. I’ll publish that on the School Computing Wiki when it is done — hopefully by the end of the month.
Our assessment is [...]

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Over the next three weeks, there is an exciting online event happening called the K-12 Online Conference.
Here’s a description:
The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be [...]

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Over the summer, I wrote about collaboration and its power to help us learn.  One of the things I have noticed about our faculty laptop program is that the place where real innovation happens is when we have a group of fellows who have similar interests (department, grade level, etc.) have a clear goal and [...]

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Well, it’s 11pm, I just got back from the beach, there are bags surrounding me, dishes to do, lunches to make, but tomorrow I head back to school after a three week vacation. So it’s time to think about the big picture, get ready to use our new web portal, the 18 new smartboards, [...]

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During the past few months, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about Information and Media Literacy — I believe that this is one of the most concrete reasons to implement a laptop or 1 to 1 program in a school. To be responsible citizens in the 21st Century, students need to be ethical, [...]

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We now have a logo and a favicon (Thanks to Mark Penny) and a great conversation happening about using mapping mashups within 6-12 classes.
Check this all out at the Education Bridges Elgg.

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