Difficult Conversations

One of the things I’m enjoying most about being on our coaching team here at ISB is the opportunity to openly share our challenges so that we can all work together to improve our practice. This week we had our first book club meeting to discuss the first chapter of Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives edited…

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Facilitator, Coach or Coordinator?

Cross-posted on the TechLearning Advisors Blog What’s your job title? Yesterday I asked my twitter network the following question: And received a lot of interesting responses: Most of us share similar responsibilities, yet we have a wide variety of titles. Just looking back at my own experience over the last ten years in three different…

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Lessons Learned: Tips for New Technology Facilitators

Cross-posted on the TechLearning Advisors Blog It’s hard to believe that our summer holidays are officially over today and we start back to school bright and early tomorrow morning! I must admit, I’ve had a wonderful holiday: a week on Koh Racha in the south of Thailand, a few weeks in the United States spending…

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Moving a Community Forward

Last week Jeff and I presented one of the final keynotes, entitled Moving A Community Forward, for the 2009 Webheads in Action Online Convergence. Not only was it a blast doing the presentation with Jeff, but it turned out to be a great reflection on what we’ve accomplished at ISB this year and what some…

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It's Not Just A Tool: Technology As Environment

One of the quotes from the panel session at the Hong Kong Summit has really stuck with me: We look at technology as a tool, but our students look at it as an environment. (Btw, if anyone can remember who said it, I would love to know!). I often say that technology is just a…

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