Chris Lehmann of SLA is hosting EduCon 2.0 in January. This promises to be a great opportunity to participate in the conversations on School, Classroom and Teacher 2.0. If you are interested in helping lead these conversations please submit proposals by November 1st. I for one am hoping to participate, and am to persuade others from my district to attend. We are always discussing the need for more technology and more professional development but to what end, what are we…
The K12 Online Conference begins! I am taking some time this morning to look through the schedule and prioritize what I wish to attend. Last year it took me quite sometime but I actually managed to see most of it. This year I will focus on the strands Classroom 2.0 and Personal Learning Networks. It is a great conference please take some time to visit and participate.
I am reviewing my notes for a presentation this evening on Personal Learning Networks, and I took a break to check in with mine. I know many are writing about this now, I have included some links below. Recently there have been wonderful examples of the network in action. It is a relatively new tool to many of us and we are getting much better at participating and working within this framework. What really hit home for me is the…
I just finished writing the last post and typed in the title for this one when up pops my twitter feed showing that Ryan has already written about our impromptu learning session this morning. What a network! As Ryan is a much better writer then I, I will just direct you there. All I can say is that I have been a part of things like this for a while and it still amazes what a power we have. We…
I am taking some time to clean out all the saved posts in my Bloglines accounts. One of the ‘jobs’ is to look for new tools to help teachers meet the learning needs of their students. So here are two resources I found in my feeds. These two alone will keep me very busy. But what resources to have at my finger tips. First Jim Coe at Bionic Teaching shares Online Media God from Mashable. This list contains more then…
At work some times I hear the following comments, they usually make me blush. How do you do it all? How to you know so much? You are so smart. I can always count on you to have an answer. I knew you would know. I’d love to take credit for it all but the reality is I am connected to a greater mind. I am learning everyday reading blogs, checking out wikis and talking to my network. Some people…
If my work at school was not enough I have also taken on residency in Second Life. I have a lot of fun participating in the events at ISTE, the Teachers Networking Center, and Eduisland 2 among others. I also volunteer at the DEN is SL and we are a very busy group. We have a lot of events coming up in the next month. For details please check out the DEN blog. It is such a wonderful way to…