How fine is the line between socialization and social learning
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…
Author: Jeff Utecht
I started blogging in 2005 and found it such a powerful way to reflect and share my thinking about technology, this generation, and how we prepare students for their future not our past.
Making Time
I came into work today and started unpacking as usual as my colleague Dennis Harter started unpacking for the day as well. He was…
What's the purpose of going 1:1
(Full Disclosure: I believe every high school student should have a laptop) The New York Times wrote an article on May 4th, 2007 that…
Planning for Learning 2.010 begins
How do you continue to be an innovative conference? You throw out everything you did the year before and start anew! That’s just what…
Time Lapse Video of Silk Worm
Full credit for this goes to Vu Lam one of our First Grade teachers who had an idea, played with the technology and then…
When to start teaching self branding
I was co-teaching earlier this week in a 7th grade environments class. The students were signing up for the wiki they were going to…
True E-Folios for students
A couple days ago I shared how the 1st grade here at ISB is creating Portfolio’s for students using iPhoto. They are simple Quicktime…
Learning to Navigate the Web
Today in a second grade class we talked about how to navigate a website. It was the start of an animal unit where students…
iPhoto your Portfolio
Today I’ve been working with the first grade team preparing to created their e-portfolios for the kids. We started off the year talking about…
There's no spork for eduction!
(As I promised Kim….full credit for her on the title of this post.) There is no one size fits all when it comes to…