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Demetri Orlando's Groups (62)

Curriculum Coordinators

4 members Latest Activity: Nov 16 A forum for curriculum coordinators to get advice, share successes, and compare notes
Help With ISEnet

2 members Latest Activity: Nov 3 A place to ask questions or seek help about any aspect of ISEnet

Learning in Virtual Worlds

3 members Latest Activity: 21 hours ago This group will explore the possibilities of education in virtual worlds.
Animation

14 members Latest Activity: Nov 9 This is a forum for using Flash, Scratch, iStopMotion, IMovie, Final Cut and other software to 'push the envelope'.

Markers of Excellence

17 members Latest Activity: Nov 2 We invite all members of the independent school community to contribute ideas on possible "markers of excellence" for any or all of the five NAIS sust…
Interactive Whiteboard Explorations

28 members Latest Activity: Oct 22 Here's a place for discussing the effective use of interactive whiteboards in schools. Feel free to ask questions, share resources, and give advice !

Lenovo Users

2 members Latest Activity: May 25 For all schools that use Lenovo laptops or tablets -- this is a forum for network administrators and support specialists to discuss best practices for…
Study Skills

7 members Latest Activity: Nov 17 Share and collaborate on creating a robust set of open resources for study skills.

Google Apps for Domains

45 members Latest Activity: Oct 19 A group focusing on the administrative and student level use of Google Apps for Domains.
NAIS Teachers of the Future

35 members Latest Activity: Nov 19 Supporting and furthering the goals of the NAIS "Teachers of the Future" project.

AIMS Technology Retreat

60 members Latest Activity: Oct 1 Maryland: A group to facilitate the 2009 AIMS Technology Retreat, designed around Amaze and Inspire: Collaborating with Colleagues!
Student Newspaper Advisers

8 members Latest Activity: Aug 13 This is a space for advisers and editors of student-run newspapers and magazines to share ideas, collaborate and ask questions.

Art Teachers

11 members Latest Activity: Aug 22 A space for the discussions of visual, creative, and performing arts teachers.
Development & Alumni Officers

11 members Latest Activity: Sep 12 This group is a place for development, fundraisers, and alumni officers to discuss and use social networking technologies.

21st Century Skills

54 members Latest Activity: Nov 19 What do we need to do in order to better equip our students to become true leaders in a "flat world" that has both exciting opportunities and challeng…
Battle Ground Academy

33 members Latest Activity: Apr 30 BGA is a co-ed k-12 school located just south of Nashville, TN, with approximately 1,000 students.

Understanding by Design

29 members Latest Activity: Nov 17 This is a group to discuss and advance the Grant Wiggins UBD approach to curriculum mapping.
History Teachers

28 members Latest Activity: Sep 16 A place for history teachers to share ideas and communicate.

Digital Natives, Global Citizens

21 members Latest Activity: Nov 17 Connecting educators and students around the world

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Barbara Jansen replied to Cheryl Colpoys's discussion 'What are you using for teacher webpages?'

We are using Rapid Web Developer which runs on the First Class platform. It is OK. Has some quirks, but mostly does the job. Allows teachers to upload video and photos, will podcast (we haven't tried it yet--new this version), has a class calendar...

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Barbara Jansen and Kama A. Bruce are now friends

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Matthew Lipstein and Erik Nauman are now friends

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Barbara Jansen replied to Liz Davis's discussion 'Rethinking Professional Development'

We are implementing a one-to-one PD approach this year. Last year, our technology planning committee (comprised of teachers of varying tech levels, instructional technology faculty, and division heads and school head, determined that teachers shou...

14 hours ago

Preston Webster added a blog post

Professional Development and Teacher Change

"If you want to improve instruction, what could be more obvious than collaborating with fellow teachers to plan, observe, and reflect on lessons." (Lewis, 2002) We know how to improve teaching; we know what works. When we fail to have an impact i...

14 hours ago

Preston Webster replied to Liz Davis's discussion 'Rethinking Professional Development'

When the goal is implementation, you are correct when you say one-on-one support is required. I applaud you for thinking of ways to individualize professional development and provide needed support. I teach instructional design, and this intense ...

15 hours ago

Preston Webster, Mark R, Stacey Kelly and 1 more joined Independent School Educators network

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Ramsey Brookhart added a discussion

Teaching Millennials

GLOBALSTIC: Writings from a millennial generation: www.globalsitic-book.com “Globalistic” is a non-fiction work that addresses the current state of progress, technology and information-overload in our increasingly globalized world. It is a collect...

19 hours ago

Erik Nauman replied to Erik Nauman's discussion 'What virtual worlds have potential for education?' in the group Learning in Virtual Worlds

I want to point out the much greater ease of use of OpenSim now that one of its developers has released a more user-friendly binary distribution, called the Diva Distribution. Yes, you have to set up a MySQL database but aside from that it's not t...

21 hours ago

Erik Nauman replied to Erik Nauman's discussion 'Appropriate Educational Projects for Virtual Worlds' in the group Learning in Virtual Worlds

We just finished the drama project with one group of 8th graders. Part of this session involved us teachers working out some of the bugs in the initial setup. I think the second group will go more smoothly with a better idea of some things we SHOU...

21 hours ago

Anne Schreiber and Susan Carter are now friends

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Ramsey Brookhart added 2 videos.

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Tracy Edward Wymer, Roger Fletcher, Bronwyn Histand and 1 more joined Independent School Educators network

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Alex Ragone commented on Matthew Lipstein's blog post 'Highlights from NEIT 2009'

Great email, Matt. Thanks for sharing. Working on a blog post about the conference now.

yesterday

Liz Davis added a discussion

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 effectiveness of the group training model. On the surface it seems like the most efficient way to reach the lar...

yesterday

Matt Montagne replied to Deborah Levy's discussion 'Looking for a great Video Sharing website with the ability to privately share videos'

Hey Deborah, I like blip.TV for what you are describing. I think you can pay roughly $100 for an account which allows you to create private links and private embed codes for your video. The videos may be left "private" so that they are only visib...

yesterday

Matt Montagne replied to Cheryl Colpoys's discussion 'Email for Middle School Students'

We are a grades 6-12 school and all students are currently using Google Apps for education, which includes email along with integrated voice, video, and text chat. We have no restrictions with the accounts, which works for us. Our students are doi...

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Matt Montagne replied to Cheryl Colpoys's discussion 'What are you using for teacher webpages?'

We're using Moodle, Google Sites, and legacy websites created in HTML. Some teachers are combining Moodle and Google Sites, while some are using one or the other. I think a more interesting question to ask is, "What are your students using for th...

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Fred Bartels commented on Brad's blog post 'Online School for Girls Newsletter November 2009'

Brad, Great site. Thanks for sharing. Lots of useful ideas for those thinking about online education. Fred

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