What gets you excited about education?
Discussion is lively in our PLP Network Community Hub, where PLPeeps from across all of our communities can collaborate and join discussions. Joseph Terch IV, posted an interesting question to peeps: What gets you excited about education? Joseph suggested the answer could be something that was tried in the classroom, something students asked or something read or heard about. Our peeps had a lot to say! Check out highlights from their discussion. Sister Geralyn Schmidt commented: What excites me about education? Hmmm…. As a high...
read moreA PLPeep’s reflection from the Australia community
It’s a time for reflection as the Australia community had their culminating session this week. Delia Jenkins, a Maths/Science teacher at Brauer College in Warrnambool, Victoria, shares her thoughts on her learning experience with us. Here’s what she had to say: In the beginning. A colleague and I arrived at the first F2F (face-to-face) day after a very early rise and 3.5 hour drive. I had been asked if I would like to go to the PLP professional development and was told it would be a great opportunity to further my IT skills....
read moreA PLPeep’s reflection from the Australia community
As the Australian Community meets for their culminating session, community member Margo Edgar of Pascoe Vale Primary School shares with us her reflection on the PLP experience: I can remember attending the first F2F (face-to-face) day and being somewhat daunted by the faces in the crowd. Educators I had admired from afar through my slowly developing Personal Learning Network (PLN). The fact that my reason for taking on the challenge of PLP was because I wanted to ‘go global’, only added to my fear. These were educators that had...
read morePLP’s Australia Community Gears Up for Culminating with Incredible Projects
Sometimes it’s the unexpected learning that surprises and captures us. For many teachers in the PLP Victoria, Australian community, the journey through PLPConnectU and their project-based learning showed them how powerful collaboration can be. The teams will be attending their culminating on November 29. Led by Sheryl Nussbaum Beach and Alan Levine, known as CogDog to many of us, the #plpconnectu teams will present their final work and hear from Alan about story-telling. The groups have been collaborating on a range of topics from...
read moreFantastic kickoffs, PLPeeps!
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...
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