Finding time for collaboration through technology
Ben Franklin Elementary Team Members: Kirk Samples, Joan Doyle, Sarah Rodriguez, Susan Sailer, Wayne Wittenberg, Stacy Slater Community: Dublin-Dallas Year 1, 2010-2011 Ben Franklin School is in its second year of working toward a successful PLC. Teachers have time to collaborate as grade-level teams on a weekly basis, but this has not solved all of our communication problems. We still lack time for all staff to communicate and collaborate. As a PLP team we decided that using a social networking tool, such as a Ning, could be an appropriate...
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One of our Community Leaders, Dean Shareski, has created a super video about our program. Meet some of the people we’ve worked with and listen to their...
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You may have noticed when you log onto ning.com, you no longer get a list of all the nings you belong to. Remember you can always access your ning with the direct URL. Or you can find a list of current nings on this page on the bottom left. Please let us know if you have any trouble!
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By Karl Fisch We’ve had some interesting discussions in the ADVIS Cohort around the idea of “lurking” (reading, but not contributing) in online communities. There have been lots of thoughtful responses and discussions, but I thought this comment by Karen Johnson from Trevor Day School was a great way to look at it: I’d suggest the term “active observer.” I see “lurking” as a great place to start, a vantage point, an active stance for those of us who need to watch and absorb for a while before jumping in. May I...
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