July 2011 Blog Posts (8)

Reform Symposium 29-31 July 2011

Added by Chris Smith (Shamblesguru) on July 28, 2011 at 4:17am — No Comments

Uniting Behind Ideas

I wrote this piece in response to “To Save Our Schools, Wear Sunblock and Bring Ideas” by John Merrow and “Schools march won’t unite us, but so what?” by Jay Matthews. On the issues raised by these two writers, among… Continue

Added by Bill Ivey on July 27, 2011 at 3:30pm — No Comments

QR Codes : Online Presentation at Reform Symposium Conf. 30 July #RSCON3

Next Saturday I'm doing a presentation about QR Codes in T&L at the free online conference the Reform Symposium ...

My session is midnight Thailand time ... but much more sensible if you are in Europe or the Americas ... it is 10:00am California time and 6:00pm in London

The online Reform Symposium is taking place using the webinar platform ...…

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Added by Chris Smith (Shamblesguru) on July 23, 2011 at 1:39am — No Comments

Interactive boards at NECC

I attended the ISTE NECC conference last month in Philadelphia. The exhibit hall is always a great place to spend time. It wasn’t until after I read an article in the July 14th addition of the School CIO newsletter that I again reflected on the vendor experience. The article was: ISTE take-home message #2: The flipped classroom makes sense by Christopher Dawson. I…

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Added by Bill Pickett on July 22, 2011 at 2:07pm — No Comments

20 Forecasts for 2011-2025

See full post here:http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=2044

The following are excerpts from a special report from the World Future Society, "Trends and Breakthroughs Likely to Affect Your Work, Your Investments, and Your Family."

Forecast…

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Added by Paul Herring on July 21, 2011 at 11:41pm — No Comments

Why I Support the SOS March

Following in the footsteps of Carol Gilligan, I will sometimes give my students the following situation to discuss as part of a given Ethics unit. A man's wife is dying and, being unable to afford the medication that would save her life, he decides to steal it. Is this ethical or not? The vast majority of my students come at the problem from multiple perspectives. Of course stealing is wrong, they say…

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Added by Bill Ivey on July 20, 2011 at 10:09am — 2 Comments

Which Social Networks to Use? [Prezi]

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Added by Chris Smith (Shamblesguru) on July 20, 2011 at 3:50am — No Comments

Academic Technologist to Instructional Designer

I posted this originally over on my blog: http://bradsblog.onlineschoolforgirls.org/ But, thought that this community would have some good thoughts... I'd love any comments that you have. Thanks. - Brad

Time spent at the Lausanne Laptop Institute (#LI11) this week got me thinking about a change happening to the role of Academic Technologists in our schools. I am sure to revisit this…

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Added by Brad on July 18, 2011 at 9:26pm — 3 Comments