Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged students
The Social You vs The Professional You
Aug 23rd
The last couple of working days and the rest of this week I’ve been talking with high school students about why we (ISB) have given them a blog to start building their ‘Professional You‘.
When I put it in terms of Facebook is the ‘Social You’…the you with your friends, and the you while hanging out. Then your blog is and should become the ‘Professional You’. The place you mold who you are, what you are interested in, and where you want to go. The you you want colleges and universities to know about, that you want your employers to know about. The More >
At the speed of a click
Aug 20th
(Scribefire, my blogging platform finally updated to work with Firefox Beta 4 so now I’m back!)
I had the most incredible experience today. First of all I’m loving working with the high school kids. They just ‘get it’. I don’t have to explain things at a very deep level and we can just fly through the technology stuff and get down to business.
And when I mean fly….I mean…..at the speed of a click.
Today in a 45 minute session with eighteen 9th graders we:
When kids lead the way
Nov 17th
I believe that part of my role, or any role of a teacher with a Personal Learning Network, is to use that network to spread the word when good things happen with your students. The Operation Smile group here at ISB continues to find ways to spread their message about their trip, about what they learned, and what you can do if you want to take part. Last weekend Ciel, a student on the trip sat down and decided to create a video. But as she said on the Women of the Web 2.0 podcast “I put it on YouTube because More >
A blog post, a tweet, a connection
Sep 4th
I have to share this story with you if for no other reason….I’ve shared it with anyone that would listen to me at school today. I believe this story shows the power of:
1. What can happen when we allow students to be “out there”.2. What happens when our teachers become networked and can bring that network to their students.3. That through connections educational possibilities are endless!
This couldn’t have come at a better time with Clint H leaving a comment on my last post about a conversation he had with his IT Director:
He has some very persuasive arguments for his ‘walled garden’ approach More >
How fine is the line between socialization and social learning
May 16th
Dough Johnson and Ann Krembs are here at ISB this week consulting with our school and the Library Review Committee on creating/restructuring our library learning space.
Doug wrote a great post titled: The essential question
I would highly recommend reading it and all of the comments.
The Ed Tech team and the Librarians (total 8 people) met with Doug and Ann on Thursday to get our take on the new space. At one point Doug brought up the thought about having a space for socialization versus social learning.
Just how fine is the line between socialization and social learning?
When we talk about spaces and what students’ needs More >
