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Archdiocese of Philadelphia educators + Virtual Academies = Collegial Learning

Posted by Lani Ritter Hall on Apr 19, 2012 in Virtual Academy | 0 comments

What happens when a community leader for Powerful Learning Practice from NE Ohio and educators from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia come together in virtual sessions with presenters from Kansas, Quebec, Iowa, Illinois, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Manitoba, California, Ontario, New Jersey, Michigan, and Maine? Learning. More learning. And more learning. For 3 years now, here in NE Ohio on many Tuesday or Thursday afternoons and evenings, I’ve been facilitating sessions and monitoring chats with passionate educators from the...

Fantastic kickoffs, PLPeeps!

Posted by Michelle Rogerson on Oct 19, 2011 in ADVIS Community, Archdiocese of Philadelphia Community, Canadian Community, Community News, Powerful Learning Practice, Virtual Academy | 0 comments

PLP leaders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson couldn’t be more excited after rolling out eight successful face-to-face kickoff events for PLP Communities and launching our first PLP Virtual Academy. One thing’s for sure: We’ve brought together an energized group of educators ready to empower themselves and their students as connected 21st century learners. Read on! ADVIS/AIMS Community The ADVIS PLP Kickoff event took place September 20 at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., and The AIMS PLP Kickoff event...

Secondary school digital literacy

Posted by Powerful Learning Practice on Aug 15, 2011 in Team Projects | 0 comments

Archbishop Ryan High School Team Members: Kathy Schafer, Pebbles Kaminski, Mary Laska, Kathi Szymborski, Jim Meredith Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 For our culminating project, we will be compiling a page on the intersavvy wiki about digital literacy on the secondary level. As members of a three year team, we found that our interests lie in many different places. We have incorporated Web 2.0 tools into the daily environment of our classrooms, and our interests have lead us all to pursue different passions. When the...

Portal to Digital Citizenship

Posted by Powerful Learning Practice on Aug 15, 2011 in Team Projects | 0 comments

Bishop McDevitt Catholic High School Team Members: Cara Marino, Glenda Rieffel, Matthew Jurkiewicz, Joe Habich, Cathy Dooley Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 Our Project is a 3 point approach to Digital Citizenship: a Student Portal, a Parent Portal, and a Teacher Portal. With a 1 to 1 netbook initiative taking place in our school next year we want to make our students, their parents, and our faculty great Digital Citizens. We think it is important that they learn what it is about and how they can implement the ideas of...

Educating for cyber safety

Posted by Powerful Learning Practice on Aug 15, 2011 in Team Projects | 0 comments

Ressurection of Our Lord School Team Members: Joan Stulz, Arleen Dubeck, Judy Devlin, Eileen Rowan, Kate Zimmaro, Cathy Brzyski Community: Archdiocese of Philadelphia Year 1, 2010-2011 Our project aim was to develop a professional development opportunity centered on digital security. Our team members worked very hard to find resources online to support and enhance our “work in progress” presentation. We are looking to implement this professional development seminar sometime in the next school year. The seminar will focus on making...