Self-guided Web 2.0 Tools Course
This self-guided course using Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networking/bookmarking sites, will help you begin to build your personal learning network and prepare you for participating in a connected learning community as a whole. We hope you feel the excitement building as you take the first steps toward preparing for what’s ahead this year in your Community. View this...
read moreTEDxNYED: Here it comes again
Do you remember hearing about TEDxNYED last year? So many great speakers. I spent the evening with friends near 89th Street and couldn’t stop talking about what I had heard, what I had learned. It was worth the flight up from DC that morning. And now we have the opportunity again. To be inspired. To engage with others who have a passion for what they do. Plus, and this is BIG: Will Richardson and Brian Crosby, two of PLP’s own, are speaking! Here are the details so you can make...
read moreDO IT YOURSELF (DIY) PD
Cross-Posted Phone rings. It’s Saturday, why are they calling me so early? The dogs decide it is time to get up and start my day anyway. I am up, coffee, walk outside, shiver and decide I will come up to the office and learn something. I open my email and there is a message from Seth Godin. It reads… [You're getting this note because you subscribed to Seth Godin's blog.] What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you’re wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter...
read moreYearning, thinking, shifting
Posted in the Bryan cohort’s virtual learning community, this video caught the attention of many in the cohort and prompted some serious thinking. Members grappled with Wesch’s message and the realities of everyday teaching in a standardized testing environment: How do I translate this into higher AP Calculus scores (a test that they must perform rigorous tasks in a very structured environment)? –Mike McCarley With being challenged and changing habits: This was powerful and is basically summing up everything that this technology...
read moreTPACK Pre-K and Mathematics
This session will look at how to use the ISTE NETS and the TPACK model to seamlessly integrate technology, pedagogy, and content together in ways that support early childhood education and mathematics. Guest Teachers: Chris Harbeck and John Holland Presenter: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Date: Dec. 17, 2010 Series: TPACK Fridays View this session About TPACK Fridays TPACK is “a way of thinking about the knowledge teachers need to understand to integrate technology effectively into their classrooms (Mishra & Koehler, 2008).” Teachers who...
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