I am just getting ready to head home from ICE 2009. It has been such a wonderful few days. I had a chance to meet some members of my PLN face-2 face, and learn from their experiences and knowledge. I was also able to learn from presenters I would not normally encounter if I just stayed in my region. I wanted to share some quick highlights. Please forgive me if I forget someone or something out. I want to thank…
I have been thinking about a comment Steven Squyers made during the Friday night panel at EduCon 2.1. “What’s your missions statement.” He was discussing how the Mars Rover Project has a mission statement short, to the point and takes up less then half a sheet of paper. He said when decisions are made we refer to the mission statement, if it supports the mission then go for it, if it does not then throw it out. I have worked…
I am attending EduCon 2.1 and having a great time. My goals for this conference were to deepen the connections I have with members of my learning network and to look for ideas and strategies to facilitate changes and growth in the educational environment in my district. There are many ways to connect to the archives of the conference but the best way is to go to the conference wiki and find the links there. I am just beginning to…
There has bee a lots of discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21st Century and if there is such a thing as 21st century literacy. Ryan Bretag’s The Great Literacy Debate, Ben Gray’s post 21st century confusion and 21st century clarification. There have been discussions on twitter and plurk and these lead to Will Richardson coordinating an illuminate discussion of the topic. I have never been great with semantics but I do know there are many…
The following is a post by Becky St. Onge who is a fellow collaborator and learner. Aesop proclaimed “In union there is strength.” Margaret Meade said we should “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Vince Lombardi maintained that “individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” For centuries…
Jen Wagner has tagged me with the Wordle meme begun by Lee Kolbert. I was also tagged by Martha Thornburgh. This works well with Teach 42‘s posts Day 27 and Day 28 of 30 days to being a better blogger where he referenced Lee’s meme. So here goes. I first used my RSS feeds, I have 4 feeds and I found it interesting that they produced different Wordles. One seemed to only show my first few posts about the MassCUE…
I spent a wonderful 3 days at Sturbridge, MA. The pre-conference day of discovery was a fun event and Dennis Swain out did himself inspiring the teachers in attendance on how to use Discovery Education Streaming. He also brought with him some wonderful STAR educators to share their expertise. The next 2 days were devoted to the MassCUE annual conference. Our first keynote speaker was Wesley Fryer. He spoke to the differences in today’s students, the importance of 21st century…