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Elizabeth Helfant from MICDS in St. Louis, MO has an amazing post outlining their school's transformation. Julie and I spent time there this summer giving them a "crash course" in flat classroom. The teachers are impressive as is the leadership of Eliza

Elizabeth Helfant outlines the changes at her school as they implement 1:1 laptops. The change and plans are comprehensive and stunning, from altering the work day and school year, to integration of technology.

This is precisely why more of us should be implementing the "23 things" pd program with our teachers. Estie Cuellar from Houston Texas did an amazing job discussing her learning journey and did an amazing job blogging it as well. This is very impressive and displays the transformational nature of becoming immersed in these tools. I look forward to seeing what happens in her classroom! Again, I believe that embedded PD (professional development that is in pieces as part of our day) rather than binge PD is much more transformational! This is proof!

summary of Estie Cullear's learning from the 23 things project -- an excellent professional development method for EMBEDDING PD.

Wow! Kristin Hokanson has compiled some amazing digital storytelling resources on this page including some great multimedia. Incredible resources!

Excellent digital storytelling resources

Susan Etteneheim uses Google Sites for her school and set up a customized start page for students in her school using google sites. Very nice work.

Susan Ettenheim's start page for students at her school. They customize it with their google site ID from their school.

I spent the day with Emily Vickery, the teacher/administrator at Montgomery Academy in AL, responsible for their PD. This is her wiki, where she shares with others at the school what they are doing. We talked about using RSS and diigo to give links. She is doing great work and will be presenting at NECC on July 2nd -- her students are going with her!

Wiki from Montgomery Academy-- teaching others at the academy how to use 21st century tools.

A framework for examining higher order thinking skills in a digital world

Site designed by Donna DesRoches to help teachers integrate information literacy skills into their curriculum

Another example of a best practice of an e-folio from my students.

Another excellent efolio project from my student -- take a look at the Doodle For Google at the bottom and how she related the opportunity to speaking out for the crisis in Darfur. This is amazing work!

One of my best efolios from this year's ninth grade class.

One of my best efolios this year from the Ninth grade. Very nice.

Great post from Sue Waters on how to use a personalized start page. Nice post.

Great post on using an RSS reader, Sue calls it a "personalized start page."

Video addressing the new DNA that teachers need in order to change our current system of education.

Wow...amazing video addressing the need for change in current ed systems

Excellent diigo group about digital citizenship that is being created by educators.

The advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success diigo group has over 400 bookmarks categorized by the 9 aspects of digital citizenship that we are using to organize. Join in and share your bookmarks. This is becoming a great resource.

top 100 management and leadership blogs for administrators.

This lost of the top 100 Management and Leadership blogs may have some great blogs for administrators and headmasters to read.

Resources from the princeton Future of Education Conference including videos and audio.

Archived information for the Princeton future of education conference. Some wonderful presentations!