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Demetri Orlando

Bassett asks, "What are your demonstrations of learning?"

The Fall '09 issue of Independent School magazine is about school mission. Pat Bassett, head of NAIS, established a committee of college ...

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Demetri Orlando

Introductions

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Deborah Levy

Looking for a great Video Sharing website with the ability to privately share videos

I'm looking for an easy-to-use, ad-free video sharing site that teachers can upload their students' video work (or slideshows, etc.) and ...

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2 12 hours ago
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Liz Davis

Rethinking Professional Development

I have been thinking about effective means of professional development for teachers for a long time. Lately I have been questioning the e...

Started by Liz Davis

15 Nov 25
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Fred Bartels

Computer Use in 2013

Back in 2003 there was an interesting discussion on the ISED ListServe in which a number of people, myself included, speculated about com...

Started by Fred Bartels

3 Nov 23
Reply by Jim Heynderickx
Cheryl Colpoys

What are you using for teacher webpages?

We want to have all of our teachers put up webpages. What is your school using? What do you like or dislike about it?

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11 Nov 23
Reply by Laura Demaria
Cheryl Colpoys

Email for Middle School Students

I am in a K-8 school and we are planning to give school email accounts to our 5-8 grade students. I wanted to get suggestions about possi...

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5 Nov 20
Reply by Matt Montagne
Fred Bartels

Earth Virtual Academy - EVA - A Design Charrette

Please consider participating in a design charrette to brainstorm a possible model for a virtual school that could harvest the opportunit...

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1 Nov 19
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Demetri Orlando

Introductions

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197 Nov 17
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kate grant

Philosophy of Ind. School Teaching?

Do any of your schools have a philosophy statement re: what it means to be a faculty member at an independent school, especially a day sc...

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0 Nov 14
Jim Heynderickx

A Common 1:1 Survey, Across Several Schools

I wonder if it would be possible to collaboratively create a student survey about 1:1 computing that we could distribute to our schools. ...

Started by Jim Heynderickx

5 Nov 12
Reply by Fred Bartels
Nancy Fortman

1:1 Laptops

What are your thoughts? We are thinking about requiring are middle school students to bring a Mac laptop to school next year. We would re...

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11 Nov 11
Reply by Tami Brass
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I've used Vimeo, which allows videos to be share via password (or left open if you prefer).
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My school is working with Michael Horn on our next school plan. Michael has graciously allowed us to share his videos with you. We will be using these videos to explore and apply Disruptive Innovation theory to our next school plan.
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I am haunted by more failure than success because of failing to adjust my professional development design to match current personal and system realities. But these failures have created opportunities as well. Here's how. Excitement filled the roo...
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Here are the three short blurbs for the AIMS Technology Retreat program. Feed, a Must Read Anyone who works with or knows a teenager, a tweenager, or a pre-teen absolutely must read Feed by M. T. Anderson. Set in the near future, the author convin...
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Laurie, You are at the heart of what motivates adults to learn. Excellent. Most of my failure had to do with my inability to connect meaning, purpose, and passion to learning that helped teachers improve teaching (this means doing something diffe...
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Hi Preston, I think that PD – and this refers to all types of PD, not just PD related to technology – should encourage and support learning: • within one's area of expertise • within one's area of passion • that complement's one's area of experti...
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Thanks, Preston, for sharing the article on finding time. ~Laurie
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Time is our enemy, for sure. Sadly too much PD is designed around time and budgets. But honesty is encouraged here as well. Time is required as teachers deconstruct and construct ideas while creating predictability and control in ready-to-use mat...
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Thanks, Liz. We just haven't had much luck with getting teachers to give up those blocks, at least not on a consistent enough basis to make any real progress. I hope you see some real success in making this paradigm shift.
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It would come out of their free block. I'm planning to meet with them every two to three weeks for a semester.
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I used it pretty actively for about two years and ultimately found it more annoying than useful. Keeping a decent signal to noise ratio took too much care and time. I'm glad others find it wonderful, but it didn't really work for me.
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Where is the teacher's time coming from to engage in these more personalized approaches to PD? We would gladly do more of this sort of thing with teachers, but even those motivated to do so have a lot of trouble making time for them.
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December 14, 2009 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm
Making it real: A Workshop on Multicultural Competency Development in Every Classroom MONDAY, DECEMBER 14TH. 2009 1:30 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. Beaver Country Day School, Chestnut Hill, MA. Please spread the word - administrators (grades 6-12) will benef...
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