To Learn Twice

These are my materials for the presentation Increasing Productivity Through Software

Here is the slide deck for my ICE2010 presentation - Visualization Learning Complex Information Through Images

Here is the presentation for the administrator's academy: The School Administrator ad Instructional Technology Leader. All of today's materials are available here as a downloadable .zip file

Here are the materials for 21st Century Learning with the 3 V's: Visual, Virtual and Verbal A workshop at ICE2010 that Aida Awad and I ran. Presentation is below and the wiki is here: http://3vs.wikispaces.com/

Workshop Registration Closes on February 3! There are only a few days remaining if you plan to sign up for any of the remaining full-day or half-day workshops at ICE Conference 2010. Workshop registration will close on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 , so if you are interested in enrolling in any of the workshops that still have some seats remaining, we encourage you to act soon before they fill. Remember that if you are also planning to attend one or both of the general conference days, you can register for all of these events at one time by visiting our online registration system . There are still openings in several workshops that cover a wide range of topics and grade levels. If you are looking to become more proficient in the use of software applications, you can find workshops on Joomla, Dreamweaver, Moodle, VoiceThread, GarageBand, iWork, and many others. Since workshops are structured as "hands on" learning experiences, you will be able to try out all of the tools and fea...

Sitting here at home reflecting on a great week at the IL-TCE Conference and specifically what I learned as I prepared and presented my presentation. Of course I had the advantage of being the teacher, so I learned the most out of anyone in the session. The presentation itself was on tagging. Well, not exactly tagging. It started with the act of tagging and using it on the low end of Bloom's Taxonomy to categorize and sort information. My goal was to move beyond that and use the technology to get kids to get to higher order thinking in comparing and contrasting, analyzing, and synthesizing information. One of the examples I used was comparing 2 tag clouds of past presidential speeches : Easy to see some shifts in focus over the course of a presidency. My point was - which is more interesting and impactful for a kid? Telling them what happened during a presidency or giving them some clues to the mystery and letting them find out for themselves? I don't want to go through t...

Wow - almost a month from the last post until now. I just submitted the State tech plan - that has dominated my life for the past 2 weeks. It is incredible that the state makes us do all of this for a document that nobody will ever read. I have pretty much completed my district tech plan (that is right - I wrote 2 plans - because the state one is that worthless) I have also been working on my presentation for the ICE conference . Finished that up too (thanks Charlene and David for the tips and feedback!) I am looking forward to getting back to reading and educating myself again. Google reader just got the "mark everything as read" treatment.