by Lisa Noble | Jan 29, 2013 | Personal Learning Networks, The Teaching Life, Voices
Twitter’s power as a personal learning network made coming back to school after the winter break more tolerable for Lisa Noble and her Canadian elementary kids. The highlights included tweets from space, transmitted by astronaut and social media maven Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut who landed on the international space station just before Christmas. And then there was littleBits…
by Lisa Noble | Aug 17, 2012 | Making The Shift, Passion Based Learning, The How of 21st Century Teaching, The Teaching Life, Voices
A game-changing experience inside her personal learning (and knitting) network has teacher Lisa Noble thinking about how to bring the transformational potential of powerful social media events into her own classroom.
by Marsha Ratzel | Jun 8, 2012 | The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices, Web Tools That Deepen Learning
Done well, social media and technology integrated into the classroom feels like a familiar old leather softball glove. It becomes an extension of your hand and you almost forget that it’s there. Done badly, it’s a waste of time and the return on your investment is nil.