To Learn Twice

We arrived in Seattle yesterday and got a chance to walk around the city. It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed the views. I like the venue for the conference this year - the layout seems compact in comparison to the sprawling layout of Nashville last year. I have my day planned and will be live blogging from the sessions I attend. Here is today's schedule (all times are PST): 7:30am Breakfast Speaker on 1-1 Computing Room 4C2 9:15am Keynote Room 6ABC 11:15 Vendor Floor 12:30 Showcase Luncheon Room 4C3-4 2:15 CTO Forum Room 4C2 4:15 Vendor Floor 5:00 Meet up with Group 5:30 Dinner @ the Space Needle 7:30 Meet up with others

0125NL_ChangingSchools_58_4.pdf (application/pdf Object) New findings on the social nature of the brain reveal the need for principals to fashion a school culture of warmth and trust. tags : DLC ASCD New findings on the social nature of the brain reveal the need for principals to fashion a school culture of warmth and trust. tags : DLC Psychologists have known for a century that people do their best when they experience both high motivation and manageable stress; when people are undermotivated or overstressed, their performance suffers. during inspired moments of learning, students experience a potent mix of attention, interest, and good feelings Teachers did their best job and felt most satisfied when they perceived that the school head Led flexibly rather than sticking to needless rules. Let them teach in their own way, holding them accountable for the results. Set challenging but realistic goals for excellence. Valued their efforts, recognizing a job well done. headteachers, data an...

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How appropriate that today would be Blog Action Day and Focus on Poverty. Based on a recommendation by Dennis Richards I just finished reading Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder . The book itself is a biography of Dr. Paul Farmer and his lifelong crusade to cure the world of illness by setting the example in the world's most diseased locales in the wost conditions (Haiti, Peru, Russia) but it is really a cry out against those that are blessed that are turning their eyes away from the poor. After reading it I believe that what Dr. Farmer is trying to point out is that poverty is the root of the cause of what ills the world - not just sickness. So what is the connection here to my edtech blog? Simply this - our world is now open to the eyes of our students. Technology makes it possible to with a couple of clicks able to read about poverty , TB , or AIDS which is faster access to print resources than we have ever had. It also allows us to make it more powerful throu...

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Tweet 3D: View hot Twitter topics in 3D "3D" Twitter Cloud. Not sure how much it could be used educationally - but looks cool. tags: tweet , twitter , tagging , 3d

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This is now my 4th year out of the classroom. This is significant to me because I remember thinking back in my 4th year of teaching that I was finally catching on. I was able to focus more on my students than my teaching. I automatically was able to do menial tasks and certain challenges from when I first started teaching became second nature. I am not there yet in this role. This transition has been harder for me. Some of it comes from changing districts in the middle of it. I am sure that if I had remained as a Tech Coordinator at Conant I would have it down by now. However, there is one thing that I am beginning to keenly understand. The ebb and flow of Instructional Technology training and support. July through September is nuts. There is so much happening that every misstep or problem seems disastrous - that you won't recover or get on track. School starts and teachers and students settle in and you are able to get back into a flow. The tech team begins to get over th...

PBS Teachers | learning.now . Tag - You're Delicious! | PBS - Annotated del.icio.us overview tags: blog , web2.0 , bookmarking , socialbookmarking , tagging , del.icio.us Good introduction to del.icio.us - post by hthiele Tagging is perhaps the greatest strength of del.icio.us. When you tag a website, you identify it with certain words of your choosing. Applying Collaborative Tagging to E-Learning This paper outlines our experiences with applying collaborative tagging in e-learning systems to supplement more traditional metadata gathering approaches. Over the last 10 years, the learning object paradigm has emerged in e-learning and has caused standards bodies to focus on creating metadata repositories based upon strict domain-free taxonomies. tags: tagging , metadata , collaboration