Let the Unfolding Begin
By Lani Ritter-Hall Thoughtful discussions, nudging, push backs Sharing, holding back 135 cohort members in the main forum of the Ohio Consortium virtual learning community, learning in quest of a more accomplished global practice– 20 professional learning teams in their private team rooms, meeting face to face– collaborating with plans to scale their learning to faculty/district— Team leaders and team members from each school –common passions, not always agreeing– storming, norming and striving for performing. An...
read moreTrends Impacting Education
Each year the The Horizon Report is published as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project – a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. This session will center on the report, discussion of what technology trends are on...
read moreDigital Storytelling
Everyone has stories. Stories come from a variety of places, from a person’s past, from their family and school, and from their imagination. Digital storytelling is the process of capturing those stories, first by writing, and then by making the story come alive by adding powerful multimedia elements such as voice, video, imagery and music. Presenter: David Jakes Date: November 12, 2009 Series: Virtual Institutes View this session About this session This session is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and brought to you by Nancy...
read moreWhat About the Parents?
By Clarence Fisher As the Archdiocese of Philadelphia cohort has begun this year, there have been a number of interesting issues raised in the discussions. Among these has been a healthy discussion about the role of parents in helping their children learn about new technologies and in guiding their growth. As well, schools have debated how some of the communication tools that we find ourselves with are best able to be used to keep parents abreast of the progress their child is making in school. How can communication technologies be best used...
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