Connected Online Communities of Practice: PLPeeps represent!
The 2010 National Education Technology Plan demonstrates the importance of educators becoming more connected to resources, tools, colleagues, experts, and learning activities, both within and beyond schools. Participation in online communities of practice is a key way educators connect. Robust online participation contributes both to individual excellence and to the vitality of the profession as a whole. The Connected Online Communities of Practice project will steward a scalable, sustainable ecology of online communities in education to...
read moreLead at the Edge: Will & Sheryl talk about their 21st century leadership e-course
If you’re a superintendent, a principal, or an educator in another key leadership role, you know that your students are using the Web, mobile technologies, and other tools to connect and create social networks. But do you also recognize their transformative potential for learning? In their five-week Leading Edge Boot Camp e-course, PLP co-founders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson help education leaders not only understand how 21st Century technologies are challenging curriculum and pedagogy but how savvy leaders can use them...
read moreSheryl Nussbaum-Beach: Learn to teach online and become a more connected & creative educator!
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is co-founder and CEO of Powerful Learning Practice LLC. In more than a decade as an online educator, Sheryl has led over 2000 webinars and e-course sessions involving more than 10,000 adult learners. A former teacher of the year in the Virginia Beach VA public schools, Sheryl has also been a school and district technology coach, an independent school principal, and a university instructor. She is co-author of a new book. The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in the Digital Age (Solution Tree, 2012). In this...
read moreTransform Your Teaching One Lesson at a Time, says Jennifer Bloomingdale
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the talk about shifting your teaching to include more technology and student choice? In her new Powerful Learning Practice e-course (5 weeks, beginning Feb. 6), iGeneration educator Jennifer Bloomingdale promises to help participating teachers achieve “Transformation, One Lesson at a Time.” Jennifer graduated from the College of St. Rose in 2006 with a Bachelors in Childhood Education. In 2011 she completed her Masters in Educational Technology and became a New York State certified Educational...
read morePower Up Student Learning with Web 2.0: Kevin Jarrett Talks about His PLP eCourse
Ready to leverage Web 2.0 tools as a powerful learning strategy? Already shifting your classroom practice but feel the need for more speed? Either way, you’re a prime candidate for PLP’s highly praised 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum e-course, offered twice this spring (5 weeks beginning February 6 or March 26) and led by one of the nation’s top classroom experts on shifted teaching and learning. In 2003, Kevin Jarrett left a first career as a corporate IT project manager & consultant to become the K-4 Technology...
read moreMy ISTE11 Experience: Confessions of an Introvert
Cross posted I spent the better part of the beginning of this week at ISTE11 in Philadelphia. While there is so much to digest, I want to share an initial reflection. To do that I need to return to January and Educon 2.3. When I left Educon 2.3 this winter, I felt like something was different than Educon 2.2. It wasn’t the speakers, discussions, SLAstudents, or organization. In fact, the conference itself is world class and I love the fact that it is run by the students of SLA. What was different for me was a feeling as though...
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