Back in June, I began a new venture. It’s now nearing the end of November and I’m finishing the end of course two. After completing the second, completely online, course of the School Administration and Supervision program (a partnership between Johns Hopkins and ISTE), I have determined that eLearning is for me. It might not [...]
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Awhile back, I favorited this tweet from Dennis Richards:
I just got around to checking out the Dancing Matt video and agree that it is one that made me smile.
In addition to making me smile, it made me think about the world today and how we used to all dance alone. Now, with the use of [...]
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Starting this summer, I’m adding a destination on my flight plan to the future. I am enrolled in the Johns Hopkins/ISTE program for a certificate in School Administration and Supervision. It’s completely online and an accelerated program. For these reasons, combined with the workload, I’m super nervous about managing my time for the next year [...]
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I’m home for the summer! This is the first year that I managed to keep my first week off from school completely unscheduled. It’s also the earliest that the kids stopped attending day care for the summer. We’ve enjoyed our first week together and as usual, I have a renewed appreciation for all the stay [...]
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Recently, in a couple of circles, the question of student use of portable music devices (mp3 player/iPod) in high school classrooms has come up. The question seems to be should it be allowed or not? My question is ~ for either side there should be more to the question – what is the purpose of [...]
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How about we give kids license to drive at 15 and say here you go! Have at it! No way, right?!
Like driving, learning to use technology is a skill that requires instruction, guidance, practice and has to be taken seriously. Just like driving, surfing can be fun. But in the same way, there are rules [...]
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Today, Martin Luther King Day, is an inservice day at my district. Our morning opened with a performance by one of our high school students and I thought it was so awesome I wanted to share it with any readers.
The work was inspired by Danny Dent, and performed to If You’re Out There by John [...]
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Cross posted from my ITS course blog ~ Learning (with) Web 2.0
I have to admit that as soon as a presenter or workshop leader says, ‘It’s time to play’ or ‘There will be time to play’, I am instantly turned off. I’m not sure why, because I always enjoy the opportunity to use said ‘play [...]
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Our class topic in grad class last week was online safety. The FBI ’s A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety was an interesting read. As a parent, the information seemed like common sense to me. Here is a favorite piece of advice from the publication.
While much of the knowledge and [...]
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Cross posted from my Learning (with) Web 2.0 ITS Course Blog
While reading The Move To Web 2.0 Increases Security Challenges all I could think about was the book Groundswell ~Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, which I’ve been working at reading for awhile now. The web article, dated May 2007, focuses on the [...]
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