My 25% PD came in the form of an hour bus ride this morning. There was enough thought provoking information in that 1 hour, I feel, to be considered my 25% PD for the week. I’m really starting to love this hour bus ride I have in the morning. Of course I’m not driving which makes all the difference, and […]
PC World in it’s May 2006 magazine has release 101 Fabulous Freebies. Some great tools, most I’ve heard of, but as usual many I have missed out on and want to try. They even have a whole category on Blogging Tools, RSS Readers, and Video Sharing. A good resource when talking to teachers about how the web is changing. Thanks […]
I received an e-mail today from next year’s principal asking us to create and give a short description of the electives we want to teach next year. So this got me thinking what would be the perfect technology elective? If you had unlimited budget and flexibility, what would you teach to 6,7,8 graders? I haven’t written the description yet for […]
I’ve been having problems with Tim Lauer’s feed for awhile now and thought maybe Tim was the latest victim of the China filter. But today the feed started working again, so I’m back reading Education/Technology. Tim posted about a comment he found on iTunes when looking for podcasts. Tim came across a recording of The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and […]
Time got away from me today. But here is what I consider my PD for the week. Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk BlogDoin’ something about DOPA (and all the links that go with it!)Interview questions David Warlick’s 2 cents worth Blog Why Kids Blog The Cost of Information Christopher Harris (Infomancy )School Library 2.0 http://www.overduemedia.com/ If you’re a librarian and not […]
I haven’t been as active as I would like to be lately. With the end of the school year looming and moving into my new position has left a long list of things to do. In my new role I will be based at the Pudong campus about 2 hours from the where I live now, so my wife and […]
I have recently made a new friend here in China. He is 22 years old which means he was born in 1983. According to Neil Howe and William Strauss of Millennials Rising this makes him one of the first of the next generation here in China. He is a real estate agent who came back to Shanghai after spending two […]
I’ve been thinking lately (always scary) about changing the PD model. Mark Ahlness responded to my last posting stating: Use the new technologies, for goodness sakes. Right, powerpoint is not a new technology, neither are web pages. DonÂ’t use them. I donÂ’t have the answers right now, but I know they are out there. The model of staff development in […]
Thank you to those that responded to my last post. It is an interesting question and one that we as professionals find hard to answer. I agree with Doug that the problem starts with the way the question is stated: What specific Technology training would you find helpful next year? Very open ended and gives no direction to the educator […]
The response today from a teacher after asked this question: What specific Technology training would you find helpful next year? We don’t know what we don’t know A very appropriate response I felt. How many teachers feel like this? They don’t want another PowerPoint session, yet they do not know what else beyond that exists. What happened in Technology training […]