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The First Full Week – A Full Week!
The first full week of classes included a very full week of activity in the lab. The district has initiated a keyboarding program in 5th grade. In addition to the many startup activities (classes registering for electronic textbooks, WITS orientations, etc.) all the 5th graders have begun their keyboarding classes. One of the nice side-benefits…
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The Beginning
My summer reading list did not get too long, but the books I read were awesome! See the recently read list in the sidebar at right for my book list. Interestingly, two of the books, totally different in nature, ended the same way. Each had as the closing, “The Beginning,” instead of, “The End.” Peter…
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10 Most Powerful Women in IT
Following in the series of article on leaders in IT (see my previous post, The 100 Most Influential *People* in IT) eWeek just released the 10 Most Powerful Women in IT. While I continue to struggle with the genderizing of the technology world (in other words, it’s only an issue if we make it one),…
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What Makes a Web Site “2.0”
So “Web 2.0” is the term for the second generation of web sites. What exactly are the characteristics of a site that make it 2.0? Sites that are “Web 2.0” typically include most of the following: publishing (writing, pictures, videos…) networking (link and group with other users on the site) tagging (keywording) RSS feed (for…
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The Machine is Us/ing Us
This video, created by Michael Wesch and posted at YouTube, is great to show how Web 2.0 has changed our world. The one here is a repost of the video at TeacherTube, a much more educational friendly site. It is not clear if this repost is has permission granted to do so, however. I’ve been…
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The Rules
Following up on the previous post about what matters, where does technology fit in? Schools are about people and learning, regardless of technology. That being said, obviously technology plays a huge role in where we are going, so how do we keep on the best path? Its very easy to get sucked in by technology…
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What Matters
As I form the foundation of the work for the new school year, what crystallized for me during the 3 day Bea McGarvey workshop on What Works in Schools, continues to be what I posted about last November: A school is people learning. (click on the sentence to go to the original post – still…
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What Works in Schools
I just finished a 3 day workshop sponsored by the school on the research of Robert Marzano and Debra Pickering. The workshop was lead by another of the Marzano group, Bea McGarvey. Bea is an entertaining speaker and shared many insights on the current state of education, and what we could/should do, based on research,…
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Am I a Dinosaur?
Attending NECC virtually has been fascinating. Not the same as being there for sure, but reading and watching what I can, I do feel a connection to what happened. There is still a long list of videos/podcasts to catch up on, but I’m brining my official attendance to a close. The twitter-skype chat-live blog thing…
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Great Questions – Do Anyone’s Tech Standards Adress These?
Courtesy of Barbara and her Dare to dream – Classroom technology Blog, the following questions appeared on a t-shirt being given out by Nettrekker: 21 Skills for 21st century learning! Can your students…. Make complex choices? Benchmark a process? manage a negotiation? Communicate clearly? Motivate others? Connect globally? Organize information? Cope with change? Read a…