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To help stretch our professional development dollars further this summer, Collegiate School is offering a number of one day workshops in-house and we would love to have teachers from other schools join us schools.

We'll be offering 10 different workshops, a full day workshop costs $75 and includes lunch. If you would like to learn more about the offerings, please visit this site:

http://sites.google.com/a/icollegiate.org/ctw/

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I attended the VAIS tech retreat over the week-end and many of the resources are available online. Here are the highlights:

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's is a professor at William and Mary and works frequently with Will Richardson. Her two presentations were recorded and available online.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/vais-tech-retreat

There are two recorded sessions at the bottom of the page.

You can also see her wikis for her presenta… Continue

NAIS released their booklet Stories of Excellence at the annual convention in Chicago. The stories contain 20 examples of innovative teaching. A PDF version is available from this page:

http://www.nais.org/resources/index.cfm?ItemNumber=151611

I think they offer concrete examples of some of the theories swirling around teaching, learning, and innovation. I'd love to know your thoughts, please share them.

The report, Living and Learning With New Media, is an initial step in cataloging and understanding how young people use the Internet. In general, it found many positive benefits.

The NY Times wrote a review that you can find here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/us/20internet.html?_r=1&hp

Here's a link to the primary author's page with different versions of the report.… Continue

Michigan State hosts the Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR.) As part of the center’s mission, they provide many free web-based tools for language learning. Their primary focus is world languages, but I could imagine a number of creative uses in many different subjects.

I am amazed by the elegance, simplicity, and benefit these programs provide. I think these programs are the wave of the future and highly recommend them to anyone working with students to increase oral proficiency… Continue