It has taken about 5 lessons for Peggy and I to get the students up and running with their blogs and the larger concept of current events. In retrospect, there are quite a few things I would do differently. First of all, I would have actually started with the IT tools first (which goes entirely…
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How great is this?! Working in international schools often means that we can be isolated from professional development opportunities like this. I’m so excited to see that it will be online (and hopefully at a time when I’m awake). ——————————————————————————————————————————- Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006” convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the…
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I see this term everywhere, and I understand what it means, but something prompted me to do a little research this weekend. I found this article, this one, this one, and of course the Wikipedia entry. Although not all of them are entirely enthusiastic about the term Web 2.0 (and they focus more on the…
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Lucky for me, I have a great friend who is currently working on her PhD in Information Science. She is always thinking about all sorts of interesting technology things, which often helps me sort through my own thoughts. Lisa’s post made me think about the constant challenge I used to face trying to find time…
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I always seem to find useful resources a moment too late… But, that’s OK, because I know I can use them again in the future. This time around, I’m wishing I had read Mike Hetherington’s posting about the benefits of student blogging before I made my presentation yesterday. I did mention almost all of the…
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