My Teaching Channel Adventure: Connected Coaching, Social Media & Some Serendipity

My Teaching Channel Adventure: Connected Coaching, Social Media & Some Serendipity

Have you heard of the Teaching Channel? Neither had I until a talented video producer gave me a call and asked if I would be willing to serve as a pedagogical expert in a short professional development video. My task: Coach a first-year social studies teacher through...

Come On, Flip Out. You Know You Want To!

As we consider whether the “flipped classroom” is the best approach for learning, PLP has a way for you to experience it. Shelley Wright, a teacher from Moose Jaw, Canada, has flipped the five-week e-course she and Sheryl Nussbaum Beach are co-teaching....

All Principals Should Be Tech Savvy

Is it necessary for an administrator to become proficient in using a variety of technologies? Understand how the tools work? Become truly “tech-savvy?” The answer, increasingly, is yes. In addition to daily interactions with my personal learning network, two recent reads and a meaningful experience at ISTE 2011 have influenced my thinking about the role of the administrator in 21st century teaching and learning.

Books to Share

A friend stopped by unexpectedly last night as I was about to go to bed. (I do turn out the lights early these days.) “I was on my way to the library,” she said. “And then I realized I could go to Susan’s house instead!” I laughed,...

Kevin, You Rock!

With most of the PLP team at ISTE11, I am watching tweets, posts, and youtube uploads from my backyard. Here’s one I just watched from ISTE connects, interviewing our PLP Community Leader Kevin Honeycutt talk about Garage Band on the iPad. You share so well,...