My Squirrelly View of Education

Trying to Integrate Technology into HS English & Special Education

My Two Favorite PD Tools Are My Car and Twitter: My Journey Back from Burnout (Thing 22)

23things, Education, Michigan, Michigan Merit Curriculum, Podcasts, Professional Development, Teacher, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 January 11, 2009

In my pre-web 2.0 world Professional Development (PD) could be basically be broken down into three categories: Image via Wikipedia Local Professional Development: A boring sage-on-the-stage, supposedly “inspirational,” district inservice. My main accomplishment was getting lots of papers graded. Countywide Professional Development Day: More conference like. Some years great, some years terrible. I got many [...]

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Podcasting:Not Just for iPod People – Thing 19

23things, Podcasts, Professional Development January 3, 2009

One day I decided began exploring iTunes Image via Wikipedia when I discovered podcasts. Wow! I couldn’t believe all of the free content available.  There was, and still is, a wide variety of categories of audio podcasts.  So, I started listening to NPR‘s humorous current events quiz show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me on my [...]

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