Elgg.EducationBridges.net — A Social Network for Teachers…

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.

What is a 21st Century Teacher?

On a post on EductionBridges.net, Jo McLeay asks, “What does it mean to be a teacher in the 21st Century?” This morning, I listened to our first few webcast’s from www.webcastademy.net to try to pick one for podcasting on Friday — as we’re on vacation — and the concept of a 21st Century [...]

This is what PD is about

Love this post by Marcie Hull (Correction — Sorry about that Marcie!), a Science Leadership Academy faculty member. Looks like an exciting and eventful planning session. I’m so excited for them!

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Information Literacy Professional Development

This summer, my department and I are working on a professional development project to map out a K-12 Information Literacy curriculum for our school, plus write some research based stories on how to implement it… Here’s the outline. What are your thoughts? Do you have other readings that have formed your Information [...]

More on the Public/Private Mashup of Life

This is a response to the following thread: Faculty with personal blogs, web pages, MySpace pages, etc
Arvind and Jason and everyone else… thanks for the wonderful exchange.
My internal conflict right now is what personal and what is private. I was reading A Whole New Mind on the way to work this morning, I finished [...]

Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting - Podcast, Slides, and Outline

The following podcast is a recording of a professional development day that I led on Thursday, April 13, 2006. The topic was Blogging, Wikis and Podcasting in the classroom. As Alan November would say, I hope its good enough to criticize.
Download Podcast Here - This is a 20 meg file, so you will [...]

Clean Slate

So I am part of our scheduling committee. We have so many courses and conflicts and we try to do it all for everyone. We do good job creating a high quality educating for students, but there is so much pressure on kids to perform in multiple classes. Maybe too much pressure [...]

Learning Migration?

I’ve been learning a lot about online life and the ins and outs of online communication lately, and I have found an interesting webcast called EdTechTalk.com. They broadcast almost daily and have an radio interview/conversation format using a skype conference and a text chat room that allows a background conversation.
The hosts of EdTechTalk are [...]

Digital Textbooks or InfoWikis?

This week, I found myself parallel thinking with Fred Bartels again. He’s proposed a Wiki Textbook called the InfoWiki. I found myself listing to an amazing series of podcasts about digital textbooks at EducationBridges.org. They have six shows on the topic now with some amazing folks such as Danny Wool from WikiMedia, [...]

Educational Skill Building

It’s been a while since my last post — I’ve been wiki’ing a lot for work, but I feel this pull to post things on my blog as well. It’s so hard to juggle all of these balls. Reading, writing, reading blogs, writing for my blog — Hey, what about my family? [...]

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