Without a doubt one of the most powerful learning and growth experience of my life has come from sharing my thoughts, reflections and lessons on my blog (pretty infrequently these days), on Twitter and in various Online Professional Social Networks. The value of doing this seems so obvious to me that I am always taken … [Read more…]
Next year is looking to be a pretty exciting one from the perspective of technology and education at my little school on Vancouver Island. Due to space constraints we have decided to do away with the computer lab and buy 20 laptops instead. I couldn’t be more delighted. We have also committed to putting projectors … [Read more…]
A new disruption seems to happen at our school every year at about this time, and it seems to be a Grade 7 phenomenon. For whatever reason this is the age at which our students acquire an iPod Touch, and by this time of the year enough of them have one that it starts to … [Read more…]
I was listening to SOS Podcast #30 recently and was intrigued to hear about TwitterTim.es. This is a site that somehow goes through the list of 650 some people I follow on Twitter and aggregates the content based on what has been posted and re-tweeted the most. It then displays the results in a very … [Read more…]
These are all great videos and slideshows. I’m sure there are lots of common threads but I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by it all. So my plan is to park them all here and come back from time to time. 21st Century Pedagogy by Marco Torres 21st century schools with Stephen Heppell Some great presentation … [Read more…]
Right now my brain is obsessed with 21st century professional development and what it looks like. In my last post I suggested that this needs to start with teachers learning how to leverage the power of certain tools to start building a PLN. I recently came across a post by Kim Cofino called The Next … [Read more…]
Will Richardson recently wrote the real power of the Read/Write is not the ability to publish but the ability to connect. This really resonated with me and I think provides a key to unlocking really powerful Professional Development opportunities. I’ll try and explain my thinking below. I need to start with my own experiences. After … [Read more…]
