This is a great resource for people looking for apps and ideas for iPAD use in the classroom.

Finished reading the Connected Educator. As we discussed in class, much of what we are doing is the same as outlined in this book. It is evident that since this book's publishing, there are many new and improved versions of these tools and ideas. This is a great book and I plan to use it as a resource in the future. I purchased the electronic version and have found that there were disadvantages to me versus the hard copy.

Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour and Robert Eaker revisited their work on PLCs and published a sequel to their book on PLCs. In the sequel, they discuss their thoughts, "New Insights" on PLCs. The publisher, Solution Tree provides an "Action Guide" to assist the reader in understanding the findings/discussions described in the new book.

Today in education, we are truly overloaded. Think of the list of things that we have deal with; the Common Core Standards, RtI, PBIS, New State Testing, Educator Effectiveness, doing more with less, etc. and the list continues. Setting priorities and determining what direction to go is truly as confusing as this webcomic from xkcd.com.

Dr. Zhao commented in his presentation at WASB two years ago that he feared the direction of the Common Core as it limited our individual district's ability to be the laboratory of creativity and innovation. He comments here citing evidence to support the CC.

Interesting on Demographics

Discussion regarding moving from software to online resources.