Trying to Integrate Technology into HS English & Special Education
I know that this should have been posted yesterday, but I didn’t get around to it until today. I could blame it on the MACUL 2011 conference that I attended last week, but the truth is I had to do a lot of thinking about what the National Writing Project what it’s impact has been [...]
I don’t know about you, but I am continually amazed at our world of instant collaboration and communication. The tool doesn’t seem to matter, be it Twitter, Facebook, or Skype. What matters are the people. Over the last couple of years I have had the opportunity to meet online hundreds of dynamic educators who willing [...]
Thing 4 Post about Skype
(note: Since publishing this post, I have put a wiki together that goes into more depth about Tweetdeck) As Jim and I started discussing this 13 More Things class way back in January, the first thing we added was Twitter. Now after viewing the Twitter resources and setting up your account, you are probably wondering “What [...]
I am participating in an online book group. We are reading Grown Up Digital by Don Tapscott. Image via Wikipedia Cover via Amazon I am finding this book to be very interesting. This week we read the intro and the first two chapters. While reading these sections, a few things stuck me. 1) Descriptions of [...]
Image by ohmann alianne via Flickr I am a huge fan of summer vacation. Lots of time for me to read what I want, enjoy the peace a quiet of home, bother the son and the husband…. well, you get the ideas. I always begin the summer with all sorts of ideas of what I [...]
I just asked my students to write their final blog post for this semester. I am having them reflect on what they have learned and what they would change about this class. So I thought I should do the same. Here I Image via Wikipedia go: I learned that JW is physically attached to both [...]
I played with Twitter Mosaic for this entry. What fun!!!! Get your twitter mosaic here.
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 [...]
Image via CrunchBase I love social bookmarking. It is an easy way to locate great content information from other content specialists. It is also a great way to share bookmarks directly with colleagues. Everyone should know and use the “for:” tag in Delicious. There is just too many great resources on the web. No one [...]
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