Have you ever had one of those days that it seems like every link you click on is perfect, makes you think, or say to yourself “Thank god….I’m not crazy”? That was yesterday for me. I feel like yesterday I might have actually met my 25% PD Time. This is a series of blog posts that I started back in February of […]

Back at it again. Yesterday was the kids first day at school and even thought it was a short week for them, it seemed long to the rest of us. The last couple of days before kids show up is always a tug of war between meetings and class prep time. But some how, some way, we always find a […]

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 […]

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 didn’t pose my 25% PD last week. For some reason I am finding it harder and harder to actually sit down and write. I find it really easy to sit down and read. I’ve probably read more in the past year then at any other time in my life. That’s a good thing I guess, I just have to […]

It has been a couple weeks since I’ve posed my PD entry. The weeks around Spring Break are always hectic. This week is conferences which has given me some free time to get back into the swing of my goal of 525 minutes of PD a week. This week I accrued about 400 minutes of PD time. Helped by 2 […]

This week my Professional Development came in the way of conversations. Conversations in person, via e-mail, and through the new course IÂ’m running on Moodle. 6 Teachers taking the course this time bring the number of teachers now using Moodle at our school to 33 with 600 students registered. 0-600 students using an online tool in less then a yearÂ…not […]

So this week I managed about 300 minutes of PD time. I like using minutes rather then hours just because it looks like a lot more time. 🙂 Arvind Grover posted this to my original 25% PD and it had me thinking this week: Jeff, although I never thought of it in the way you describe it, that is exactly […]

OK, so this week I missed my 525 minutes of PD by 205 minutes. It was a bit of a hectic week. Hopefully next week I can make up the minutes. Here are the highlights from this week: Podcasts via iTunes March of the Penguin Podcast from David Thornburg-Moving at the Speed of Creativity No shortcuts podcast by Rafe Esquith-Moving […]

After reflecting on the amount of PD teachers should be receiving, I’ve decided that I have to control my own PD. I have been for most of this year. But it hit me today as I had a light class load that I am in charge of my own PD and so I did what you do at any good […]