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Lorri Carroll

CAIS Commission on Professional Development | CPD Blog for CAIS Colleagues to Share Pro... - 2 views

  • This post, written by Justine Fellows, is the first of a series of posts written by members of the CAIS Commission on Technology. 
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    You are invited to join our new professional development blog; enter the conversation and write posts about important issues that focus your learning and help other CAIS colleagues. Think of our blog as a faculty lounge for all CAIS educators. It's our venue to share professional learning, ask questions, and give advice:  [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/ Just as an "unconference" moves forward with a participant driven spirit, the Commission of Professional Development created this blog to be a forum for CAIS educators to exchange thoughts, questions and insights about important issues in our learning communities. Email [ mailto:bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org ]bsullivan@suffieldacademy.org for a simple step to becoming a member of this blog. What do we hope this blog will become? An opportunity for CAIS educators to jettison inhibitions that they may have about "writing in the social media" world and break into the digital forum by sharing the wisdom we know exists among CAIS minds. Click on this Edutopia link for an example of a dynamic blog for educators:  [ http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar ]http://www.edutopia.org/blog/balancing-work-and-life-teacher-elena-aguilar Imagine that the above content of that post and comments were specific to CAIS educators-perhaps from a colleague! The content would be so useful. Moving forward, the CAIS blog will host interesting topics with comment threads that relate to the contexts of CAIS learning communities because CAIS educators know a great deal about teaching and learning. The blog will also be another lens to design professional development programs. The CPD wants to read your posts. Also sign up for updates by clicking on the "Follow Blog via Email" hyperlink so that you can follow your colleagues: [ http://caisct.wordpress.com/ ]http://caisct.wordpress.com/
Demetri Orlando

Rethinking Teacher Professional Development - 5 views

  • the most important characteristics of effective professional development for educators, you might be surprised by one of their first answers: A blank bulletin board and a bunch of empty classrooms.
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    Nice description of the "unconference" approach to professional development which gives participants control of the agenda.
Demetri Orlando

Treating Teachers as Professionals: The Value of Adequate Preparation Time | Edutopia - 0 views

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    At Sherman Oaks School the entire faculty meets every day from 11:30-1:00. wow!
Demetri Orlando

Ten Tips for Using Authentic Assessment in Your School | Edutopia - 5 views

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    interestingly, i think that many of these strategies could be applied to professional development
Demetri Orlando

Take Your Faculty SpeedGeeking! | always learning - 0 views

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    imagine a professional development activity structured like speed dating...
Lucy Gray

d.school: the whiteboard | Designing what's next in teachers' professional development - 6 views

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    Via Don
Sarah Hanawald

Top 100 Tools for Learning: Summary PDF - 0 views

  • Between January and March 2008 155 learning professionals shared  their Top 10 favourite tools for learning  (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others).  We used these lists to compile the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008. 
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    From the UK, top 100 tools for learning. Mostly web app's, lots of web2.0. Would be handy for a presentation, sort of "how many of these do you know about" overview for folks.
Sarah Hanawald

The LoTi Connection - LoTi Services - 0 views

  • The LoTi Classroom Teacher represents a series of online courses designed for classroom educators, mentors, and building administrators to improve and refine the manner in which learning technologies are used to promote student engagement and achievement. The LoTi Classroom Teacher series explores the concepts of higher order thinking skills, differentiation, collaboration, and the use of technology to build effective communities of inquiry that help students develop 21st Century Skills as articulated by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
Jim Tiffin Jr

K12 Online Conference - 1 views

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    This is a FREE, online conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.
Sarah Hanawald

434 + essential web 2.0 Tools in one place! - 0 views

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    Wow-- a very cool list of web 2.0 tools. Great resource for a workshop or for play.
susan  carter morgan

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - 0 views

  • Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.
  • “The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”
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