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PLP Bloggers

By Susan Carter Morgan I was checking out some of our PLP-ers blogs. Tanner Vision thinks Apple knows what they are talking about. Teachology Director focuses on "the netting." Watch Your Bobber has some great links to tech resources.  Cary is exploring whether...

The Projects Begin

By Susan Carter Morgan April has arrived, and that means Powerful Learning Practice cohorts are drawing to a close, preparing their final projects. Chesnut Hill Academy, part of the ADVIS cohort, has created a short video explaining their plans to focus on...

Connected Teaching

By Will Richardson To me, at least, one of the most interesting phrases used in the new National Educational Technology Plan was this: "...using technology to help build the capacity of educators by enabling a shift to a model of connected teaching." Obviously, this...

Project Based, Passion Based, Inquiry Based Learning

How do you shift from the artificial divides of "subject knowledge" and the disconnected stream of "mass instruction" to something fundamentally more human? Project-based, inquiry-focused learning leverages student passions and makes students into leaders. We'll look...

Personal Professional Development

By Karl Fisch In a recent discussion in the ADVIS Cohort Ning, Will Richardson posed a question about public perception: So I'm wondering, if we believe that putting ubiquitous access into each student's hands is the best way to teach that student to be prepared for a...

Announcing: Susan Carter Morgan- Newest Addition to PLP Family

Please join me in welcoming Susan Carter Morgan, our new Social Networking Strategist, to the PLP Team. Susan has a passion and talent for networking socially and will be heading up the development of PLP's digital footprint. You can keep up with Susan and PLP by...

TPACK Language Arts

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 language arts instruction. Guest Teachers: Ida Mae Craddock & Corrie Kelly Presenter: Sheryl...

What game-designers know about motivation-and teachers can learn

A session to show some of the alignment of social-games with social media and networking. The sessions will take a guided tour of World of Warcraft, and I will explain how the social element blends with enquiry to demonstrate how the tenants we assume are the domain...

Action Research Project Teasers

By Lani Ritter-Hall The school teams in the Ohio Consortium were invited to create short, online teasers for their action research projects. The three exemplary teasers that follow generated excitement within the cohort and we are pleased to share them with you here....