A Principal's Reflections
JULY 14, 2011
'Cross-posted at the Huffington Post: Effective Leadership in the Age of Reform. School improvement efforts rely heavily on quality leadership. Educational leaders are tasked with establishing a collective vision for school improvement and initiating change to spur innovation, ensure student learning, and increase achievement. On July 13 th I had the pleasure of hearing Dr.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 14, 2011
'Earlier I asked for y''all to tell me what you though innovation in teaching and in the classroom looked like.I got a ton of great responses. Here are a few that stuck out to me. Innovation is about flexibility, adaptability and related to that infamous "with-it-ness" that educators are supposed to have. Ideally, being a thought ahead of learners (anticipating the question or the problem) is related, but what you do to address these is the critical point.While we can "solve any problem" with te
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The 21st Century Principal
JULY 9, 2011
'I n his success psychology book entitled The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, Jonathan Haidt states that there are three ways people approach their work. People approach their work as a job, a career or as a calling, and their approach often determines their attitude and level of commitment to that work. Those who approach their word as a job, "do it for the money.
SpeechTechie
JULY 13, 2011
'Ah, summer. A great time to laze on a hillside and look up at the clouds. Clouds are an interesting context for language development as well. One can list the different kind of clouds and what comes out of them (categories). The process by which clouds are made, the water cycle, is a key curriculum topic (sequence). They are also just sort of fun, because they are shapes and different people see different things in them (description).
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wwwatanabe
JULY 12, 2011
'I''ve had several people ask me about how to start blogs and portfolios with their students next year, and what''s the best approach. Purpose of Student Portfolio? Portfolios are collections of student work/artifacts that represent the process and progress of their learning. Typically the stronger artifacts document reflection and feedback. Some of the artifacts in the portfolio are then selected to present to others, such as at a parent-teacher conference.
The Web20Classroom
JULY 11, 2011
'Innovation: - the introduction of something new - introduction of new things or methods. - Although the term is broadly used, innovation generally refers to the creation of better or more effective products, technologies, or ideas. Innovation is distinguished from renovation in that innovation generally signifies a substantial change or difference versus more incremental changes.
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Learning with 'e's
JULY 12, 2011
Everyone has one - a personal learning environment, that is. Just look around when you are next sat on a bus or train, and you will see people sat listening with earbuds or using their mobile phones. Some will be reading books, or Kindles. Others will be discussing current affairs with their friends, or reading newspapers. It's quite simple. We all learn.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JULY 11, 2011
'Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page.
The Daring Librarian
JULY 12, 2011
'On the interwebs a star can rise overnight! And no. I''m not talking my old beloved friend & early Internet Meme Trogdor.I''m talking about a cool guy from Denmark. With the advent of the new social network by the Googles called Google Plus or G+ Denmark denizen Simon Laustsen has created some of the BEST & coolest infographics for this exciting new community of learners & early adopters!
The Electric Educator
JULY 9, 2011
'This week I''ve spent a lot of time exploring Google+ and blogging about it on the EdReach network. I''d encourage you to take a look at some of the posts that fellow blogger Chad Kafka and I have written: Google+ in Education An Introduction to Google+ Circle Me Up: Exploring Circles in Google+ Light the Fire: Learning Through Sparks Thanks for subscribing to my blog.
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Learning with 'e's
JULY 13, 2011
With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. The authors of the Horizon Report (I cannot recommend the Horizon Report series highly enough) succinctly define the personal web as "a term coined to represent a collection of technologies that confer the ability to r
Learning with 'e's
JULY 14, 2011
During my undergraduate degree programme, I remember assembling with a small group of fellow students in a room to start our new module on social psychology. We knew our new lecturer's name, but beyond that we knew very little about her. So we sat and waited for her to appear. And we sat and waited. Almost five minutes after we were due to start, we began to wonder if perhaps she was actually sat in the room with us, posing as a student, conducting some bizarre psychological experiment.
Learning with 'e's
JULY 11, 2011
The sheer volume of content being created and posted to the web is overwhelming. In a post brought to my attention today, Kelly Hodgkins claims that if we paused the web for 60 seconds we would miss the birth of more than 1500 new blog posts, almost 100,000 new tweets, 20,000 posts on Tumblr, 600 new videos (more than 24 hours) uploaded to YouTube and at least 12,000 new ads on Craigslist.
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