Powerful Learning Practice Blog
A Year 4 Anniversary to Remember
Four years ago, January 24, 2007, was the first day we Skyped into our classroom a classmate that couldn't attend school because she had leukemia and the side effects from the chemo therapy she was receiving made it impossible for her to attend school. Through the...
TPACK World Languages
This session will look at how to use the ISTE NETS and the TPACK model to seamlessly integrate technology, pedagogy, and content together in ways that support world language studies. Guest Teachers: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano Presenter: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Date: Jan....
One to One Laptop Learning Resources
Quality resources abound for use in the one to one laptop classroom. Come and explore creative uses of online resources for creating relevant and engaging activities for your students. Presenter: Gary Stager Date: January 20, 2011 Series: Virtual Institutes About this...
Flipping the Economics Class
Cross-posted Jason Kern After reading and thinking about what Karl Fisch is doing with hisAlgebra class as well as many others across the nation, I decided to go back into the classroom and help teach a section of Economics that I used to teach before becoming an...
Learning Online
If you've been enjoying TPACK Fridays, you will be happy to know we have more coming. Today we feature two great speakers who will share their work with you. Here is the blurb from our website: A former PLPeep, Jennifer Clark Evans is an Upper School English teacher...
TPACK Language Arts & History
This session will look at how to use the ISTE NETS and the TPACK model to seamlessly integrate technology, pedagogy, and content together in ways that support language arts and history projects. Guest Teachers: Jennifer Clark Evans" and Ginger Lewman Presenter: Sheryl...
Behind the Scenes of a PLP team
My favorite part of most stories is the back story. When watching a great movie I immediately want to see if the DVD contains any special features on how it was made or where the story came from. I'll often watch a movie and simultaneously look at wikipedia to find...
TPACK Language Arts
This session will look at how to use the ISTE NETS and the TPACK model to seamlessly integrate technology, pedagogy, and content together in ways that support language arts. Guest Teachers: Bill Ferriter Presenter: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Date: Jan. 7, 2011 Series:...
PLPeep: Margo Nygard
Changing a classroom to reflect new ways to learn and grow is one thing. And changing a district can be even more challenging. But if the energy and initiatives are based on sound practice, amazing things can happen, says Margo Nygard, the Curriculum and Instruction...
Self-guided Web 2.0 Tools Course
This self-guided course using Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social networking/bookmarking sites, will help you begin to build your personal learning network and prepare you for participating in a connected learning community as a whole. We hope you...