Virtual Learning

I wanted to pass information on about two upcoming virtual learning opportunities. One is the FETC Virtual Conference and Expo ‘09 and the other is Discovery Education’s Virtual Conference, Spring Into Action. See the details below and if you’re available on Thursday, April 23rd and/or Saturday, 4/25th get registered. Have fun learning, for as long [...]

Project Tomorrow & Pennsylvania

Project Tomorrow has conducted the Speak Up Survey of students, teachers and parents each year since 2003 to learn more about the views these groups have about technology and 21st century education. The Speak Up findings are used to inform federal, state and national policies and programs on education and technology.
The 2008 themes were:

Learning & [...]

Summer Learnin’

Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania is offering a variety of seven day graduate courses (clinics) for teachers and school technology leaders to strengthen technology integration skills. These courses can be taken individually or as part of their Master’s degree program in Learning Technologies.
These courses are interesting to me because they don’t follow the regular format for [...]

YouTube in the Classroom

Many districts block YouTube for students and in many cases, for teachers also. In cases where YouTube is not blocked for teachers, embedding video content from YouTube or linking to a video can still be troublesome because the site itself can be overwhelming with the amount of activity (comments & links) found there.
Two sites that [...]