Archive for the ‘Professional Development’ Category
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
What Role Do Our Beliefs Play in Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning?
Sara Greenhow, University of Minnesota
I love the title of this session. I've observed over and over again that teachers' beliefs do affect how they use technology. I've talked to teachers who hold fundamental beliefs about the place ...
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
A professor of mine, Dr. Scott McLeod, was apparently bitten by the blogging bug recently and has started a great new blog called Dangerously Irrelevant about educational technology leadership. This blog was long overdue because Scott is never short on opinions and he has an approachable, thought-provoking way of presenting ...
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
We had a whole-district staff development day today and I had the chance to introduce about 35 teachers to Web 2.0 and some applications like Del.icio.us, Flickr (with an accompanying lesson on Creative Commons), Technorati, Bloglines, and Wikipedia. I was pleased with the results, and the experience reminded me of ...
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
I used a traditional CGI approach and MySQL to build my recent idea sharing Web application. After listening to the last episode of Inside the Net which discussed, in part, the Ruby on Rails Web development framework, I decided to check out some alternatives for future development work. Ruby on ...
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Saturday, September 24th, 2005
Miguel Guhlin responds to Tami's comment on my post about online testing in Minnesota and concludes that teachers must be the ones to transform teaching and learning. He says:
I'm tired of technology fads—and blogs, podcasts, wikis as tools to revolutionize teaching and learning are included in that—that claim they will ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
I've consistently said since I started my current job nearly two years ago that the era of one-size-fits-all professional development needs to end. It may have been appropriate to put 25 teachers in a computer lab for a training program in the early days when none of them had much ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
21st Century Skills come up a lot in the literature about one-to-one computing. This session is called "School Leader Development: Building 21st Century School" and is presented by a number of folks who work through Microsoft's Partners in Learning program.
The presentation begins with some information about globalization. They mention Friedman's ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
This session at NECC is called "From Mole Hills to Majestic Mountains: Implementing UDL." I'm beginning work on a universal design project at Hopkins, so this session is particularly timely. The presenters are Lauri Susi from Spotlight on Learning and John Laskarzewski.
The presenters' definition of UDL: Universal Design for Learning ...
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Monday, June 20th, 2005
I always learn at least as much in my conference conversations as I do at the sessions themselves. At TNT I spoke with Craig Nansen about some of the things he's been doing in Minot, ND. I also met Darin King, Tech Coordinator in Grand Forks. Both Craig and Darin ...
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Thursday, December 16th, 2004
I'll bet the teaching staff at your school is pretty much like our's. There are a few teachers who really get technology and how to use it in their daily instructional practice, a few others who will never use technology no matter how hard people like me try, and a ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
My commute isn't awful, but 30 miles and roughly 45 minutes each way is probably a little longer than average for the Twin Cities. At least we have outstanding public radio here. In the weeks since I discovered podcasting I've been mixing the MPR listening with various podcasts and have ...
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