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EduCon 2.2
January 29, 2010 at 6am to January 31, 2010 at 7pm – Science Leadership Academy
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We've found time by giving four faculty meetings a year to working on committees--the personalized PD time. And because the teachers are charged up about getting their pet projects done they find time to meet after school on their own. I find it har…
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 differe…
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 expertise…
Thanks, Preston, for sharing the article on finding time.
~Laurie
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 mater…
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.
It would come out of their free block. I'm planning to meet with them every two to three weeks for a semester.
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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Liz Davis's Blog
Making Meaningful Connections (NEIT2009 Days 2 and 3)
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 9:38am —
Reflections on NEIT2009 - Day One (Cross Posted on www.edtechpower.com)
I could hear my heart beating in my chest as I drove up to the Mohonk Mountain House, the site of the NEIT (New York State Association of Independent Schools (N) Education (E) Information (I) Technology (T) conference. I was excited, but also nervous at the end of my 3.5 hour d… Continue
Posted on November 18, 2009 at 9:21am —
Gr8T Quotes from #NAIS09
(Cross Posted from my blog: The Power of Educational Technology)
I've just returned from the National Association of Independent School's annual conference. It was a wonderful experience. I had the opportunity to meet face to face with many people from my online network (always the highlight of a conference), to attend several very good sessions and to learn
… Continue Posted on March 1, 2009 at 11:29pm — 1 Comment
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- At 6:00pm on December 12, 2008,
Laurie Bartels said… - HI Liz,
Somebody (it's Friday…I've forgotten who ;-) but I believe it was either Alex or arvind or Vinny on their interview with Curt Johnson) asked what he would include in the book now if there was a revised version; also asked if he had any advice for incoming President Obama.
Good luck Wednesday!
Cheers,
Laurie
- At 4:29pm on December 10, 2008,
Laurie Bartels said…
- HI Liz,
Popped over to say hi, and find out when you are interviewing Michael Horn.
Cheers,
Laurie
- At 7:47am on July 14, 2008,
Susan Carter Morgan said… - Hey Liz,
Welcome to the ning!
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Hi, Curt
We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft.
One reason we did thi…
A video taken during a recent visit to Singapore ... a Christmas Carol played on an unusual instrument.
Orchard Road with a backdrop of the Christmas lights
Share your work arounds and enhancement requests for Finalsite.
2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
"The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such.
Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools
A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
James,
How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates?
"Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself."
Fred
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