March 2010 Blog Posts (14)

Top 10 Ways to Keep Meetings On Track

1. Require meetings to start and stop on time.

2. Ensure that there is an agenda distributed in advance.

3. Estimate a time frame for each agenda item and stick to it.

4. Don't use meeting time to pass around or present information; this should be done ahead of time via email. Meetings are for discussion and…

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Added by Demetri Orlando on March 25, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

teaching about health issues

Do you guys see ways that schools are using this talk of health care to teach about how insurance works. Many kids today have no idea how Dental Plans or Health insurance works. They don't understand the current talk about health care because they don't understand the system.

Do you all see innovative ways that this is being taught in schools? Do you have ideas about how we could use… Continue

Added by Cammi Madison on March 25, 2010 at 10:31am — 1 Comment

Shrink the bottled water industry - a great project for indy schools

The Story of Bottled Water http://bit.ly/9ULcP7

If congress can pass health care reform legislation, maybe we can get bottled water banned from our schools... and in the process help heal the world a little and educate our students about the moral vacuum of modern unregulated corporate capitalism.

Added by Fred Bartels on March 23, 2010 at 7:31am — 2 Comments

Lost iPhone & Life 1.0

This is a cross-post from my blog: http://pdsblogs.org/derrickwillardblog/

This week was spring break from my school. I told myself I would unplug, which was very hard to do after the all the excitement and stimulation from attending the NCAIS Innovate Conference. I dropped of Twitter (professional tool) for the week, but took my iPhone to NYC on my family vacation… Continue

Added by Derrick Willard on March 19, 2010 at 8:03am — 8 Comments

2010-2011 NAIS Teachers of the Future Program - Now Accepting Nominations!

Nominate a Teacher Now! The Deadline for Nominations is April 16, 2010!

Are you or do you know a teacher currently working at an NAIS member school that might be interested in being part…

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Added by Ioana Suciu on March 18, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

NAIS Challenge 20/20 Program - Now Accepting Applications for 2010-2011!

Apply Now to Participate in the 2010-2011 Challenge 20/20 Program!

Are your students interested in learning about global problems and collaborating with students from other countries…

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Added by Ioana Suciu on March 18, 2010 at 11:27am — No Comments

OSG Professional Development Course

The Online School for Girls is proud to announce a new course offering... this one for teachers.

This summer from 6/20-7/17, the Online School for Girls will be offering an online professional development course on Blended Learning, designed for middle and high school teachers with some interest in blended

instruction, but some to little experience with it. The course will be taught…

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Added by Brad on March 16, 2010 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Looking for a database that represents records as objects located in a virtual 3D space

I'm looking for a program/database that represents records as objects located in a virtual 3D space, with the XYZ position of objects being determined by attributes of the records represented by the objects.

The reason for this?

Imagine if every student could interact in 3D with their own data set of a collection of objects representing a school's curriculum. See more on this idea here:… Continue

Added by Fred Bartels on March 16, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

Online School for Girls Newsletter March 2010

Online School for Girls Newsletter

March 2010

Register Now! Online School for Girls Course…

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Added by Brad on March 12, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Wickedly clever mashup ...

http://en.tackfilm.se/

If your students haven't already tried this with you, they probably will. :-)

Added by Fred Bartels on March 10, 2010 at 6:30am — 1 Comment

Participation = Engagement on School Sites

One of the sessions I attended at the NAIS conference was "Building School Websites Around Participation" presented by Proctor School and Travis Warren of Whipple Hill. I was glad Proctor was presenting because I'd come across their site in a different context last month and was really impressed with their use of social media. The premise of their site, and of the presentation is that school websites have moved into a third generation of measuring engagment. The first generation was static…

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Added by Demetri Orlando on March 5, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

An Amazing Independent School Story

Watch the 2nd video in the list on the webpage linked below, "How it all started", for the story. It may make your day.

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=61213&bnr=ban_lyndastory_mem

Added by Fred Bartels on March 4, 2010 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Hyperthreading vs. Multitasking

Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow States"

Recent research seems to validate that humans can only focus on one thing at a time. This comes up in response to the assertion that "digital natives" learn differently and by doing many things at once (e.g. studying while instant-messaging, texting, and listening to…

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Added by Demetri Orlando on March 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment