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 This year is a rebuilding year.  As I wrote about in my reorganization post in the summer, I have three new staff members in my department this year.  We are physically spread all over the school, creating divisions that can negatively effect department cohesiveness if we do not stay in frequent contact.
To work around this, we’ve [...]

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1/15/07 Update:

What are they? How can I use them in my Classroom?

Here’s the outline of my NYSAIS Professional Development Seminar for Tuesday. Any comments would be appreciated. Bring Blue SnowBall, Get Richardson: Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting. Review last blogging outline:

Goal of Day: Exposure to RSS, Blogs, Poscasting, Social Bookmarking and
Wikis. The ability for participants to [...]

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My Information Literacy post received a few comments asking where we would be collaborating (since I left out that link). The page on the School Computing Wiki under Information Literacy. I placed my goal, readings/podcasts/games links, and my timetable (for this summer’s work) there. I have also created a page with a [...]

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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 [...]

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I’ve been quiet over the past week or so.  The reason is that last Thursday (4/13) I ran a professional development day at my school.  The topic was blogging, wikis, and podcasting — sorry to steal your book name Will:-).  It was the culmination of much of what I have learned by blogging over the [...]

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