Twitter – finally!
Well I finally think I have time to give twitter a go. Lets see if I can keep it up and get into the habit. Now I need to develope a friends list, and learn all the ins and outs. I love summer time to play and explore.
UDL and Assistive Technology
I have been asked to develop a curriculum for a 40 hour course addressing Universal Design in Learning and Assistive Technology. The course is to address the basic principals of the two concepts, what they are, what they are not and examples of best practices. The participants will primarily be middle school level general and special education teachers. Their curricular area is math. Though we can branch out into other curricular areas and age groups this is where the major…
Ning as a Professional Development Platform
When it comes to providing an on-line component for professional development in my district we have been using Moodle and wikispaces and Google groups. Depending on the length of the professional development or proficiency of users these tools have served us well. But I have been taking a look at Ning as an option. As we develop more professional learning communities, could Ning be a more appropriate tool? Would creating a social network for each group foster a deeper level…
Discovery Education in SecondLife
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is setting up shop in SecondLife. The DEN is about teachers connecting with teachers to collaborate and share best practices. Much of this takes place through the web and the wonderful real life events held by Discovery educators through out the country. Secondlife is another venue to promote teacher to teacher sharing. Please take a look at the DEN in Secondlife blog to keep up to date on up coming events. If you have not…
Who are the Bloggers?
Brian at Bump on the Blog is taking a survey on some demographics of those participating in the edublogoshpere. If you are reading this then you are a participant. Please check out his blog post and take his survey. The more the merrier. UPDATE: The results are in head over to Brian’s blog for all the details.
Where did the year go?
It is the end of the school year and we are about to enter the no-mans land of summer. As a student and educator my year only seems to last from September to June. July and August are not really part of my calendar year. Echoed through out the halls today are “goodbyes†and “see you next year†when really we will see each other next week at the grocery store or beach. As the school year comes to a…
The Unsung Heros
Jennifer Wagner from Thougths From a Technospud and Women of Web 2.0, recently asked her readers to share some of their favorite lesser know blogs from their blogrolls. I was honored to be included on her list. I think this is a great idea, many of us have a core group that we all read. But I believe the more voices that are heard the greater depth of knowledge that develops. I would like to share two of my favorite…