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 […]
I came into work today and started unpacking as usual as my colleague Dennis Harter started unpacking for the day as well. He was complaining about a headache he had this morning and we started brainstorming what it could be from. We ended up talking about water and how neither of us feels like we’re drink enough water through the […]
(Full Disclosure: I believe every high school student should have a laptop) The New York Times wrote an article on May 4th, 2007 that resurfaced via Twitter last night. Titled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops, It took me less than four paragraphs to start shaking my head in disbelief at the way this school district went about trying […]
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 we did this last weekend at the first planning meeting for the Learning 2.010 Conference that will be held in Shanghai in September 2010. Next year Hong Kong will be hosting a conference called 21st Century […]
Full credit for this goes to Vu Lam one of our First Grade teachers who had an idea, played with the technology and then created something very cool. A Time Laps Video of a Silk Worm spinning a cocoon. This is a day long process condensed into 38 seconds. Sure I could go on about taking risks, getting an idea […]
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 be using to do a project. One boy in the class created his username as: tommmmmmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyy!!!! Why? When do we start teaching students about self branding? I understand that part of this is a maturity issue, […]
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 movies that kids can start and stop with their parents as they talk about their learning. This is a great solution for teachers in primary grades who have a digital camera in their room with them […]
Today in a second grade class we talked about how to navigate a website. It was the start of an animal unit where students will be studying animals of the grasslands. The students using the National Geographic Kids site which is a great little site to teach kids to research. Here are the questions I used to talk about navigating […]
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 how we could organize the photos and movies that would be taken over the year so that when it came to this stage of the process it would be as quick and easy as possible. With […]
(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 education. There are many different approaches to the same solution. Technology is no different. There is no “Killer App” that does it all and does it well. There is not one tool that you can learn […]