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I have been thinking a lot about what basic technology skills faculty should know. We’ve surveyed our faculty on basic tech skills, and have a good idea of what people know and don’t know, but what Technology skills should they know?
The reason I ask this question is that we have half of [...]

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1. Spend as much time with my family as possible. I learn from my wife and kids each day more than I could ever learn from any other group of people.
2. Keep blogging, webcasting, and reflect on my learning as much as possible. This reflective part of my life has become [...]

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About a year ago I started blogging. My third child was two weeks old and I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I started… One of my early posts was about video teleconferencing. I created the video teleconference so the president of a web site development company could observe and ask [...]

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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 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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It’s been a while. I’ve been reading, and writing, and listening, but not here. I’ve been watching the EducationBridges.net Elgg, working on a web site for a friend’s charter school, and Arvind and I have begun webcasting again at EdTechTalk.com.
But what I’ve been working hardest on is the day job. Rolling out [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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