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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/

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.

"The result is our new report, Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril and Potential of Networks. Through more than 70 examples, we found networked communities pushing for open government, banding together to care for the elderly, enlisting volunteer coders to make online aid maps for earthquake ravaged Haiti, and more."

Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.

nice list of chrome extensions including utilities for screen capture, text to speech, equation editor, stripping ads, remove "related videos" on youtube, etc.

High school programs are analyzed for the process best used to plan for and implement iPad programs. While pedagogy gets its own paragraph it isn't really covered.

SRSD for writing for all students

A great article on how Web 2.0 is turning around a large urban city.

Vivek Kundra, CTO for Washington, D.C., is shaking things up with Web 2.0 and his "Apps for Democracy" ideas. This is a great article on how Web 2.0 and new ideas can work at any level.

On this wikispace, a school in Florida is posting P.D. videos for elementary school teachers. (thank kim cofino for tweeting the link)

I would like to have students follow one of these blogs for a while, then respond.

Workspace for the four day workshop sponsored by the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach July21-14, 2008

A fairly complete guide for independent school folks looking for just about any vendor or organization working in the K-12 space. Brought to us by inResonance.

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

sort of the "official" publication about 21st Century Learning

Jim Lehrer's "rules" for the PBS Newshour reporting are a nice set of guidelines that could be applied in general to interacting online on discussion boards, list-serves, and social websites. Might be useful for students to read these as part of a netiquette lesson

interesting user-friendly site for delivering teaching, or for learning.

Sample Problem: You advise Pat Williams, the president of DynaTech, a company that makes precision electronic instruments and navigational equipment. Sally Evans, a member of DynaTech's sales force, recommended that DynaTech buy a small private plane (a SwiftAir 235) that she and other members of the sales force could use to visit customers. Pat was about to approve the purchase when there was an accident involving a SwiftAir 235. Your document library contains the following materials: 1 . Newspaper article about the accident 2. Federal Accident Report on in-flight breakups in single-engine planes 3. Internal Correspondence (Pat's e-mail to you & Sally's e-mail to Pat) 4. Charts relating to SwiftAir's performance characteristics 5. Excerpt from magazine article comparing SwiftAir 235 to similar planes 6. Pictures and descriptions of SwiftAir Models 180 and 235 Sample Questions: Do the available data tend to support or refute the claim that the type of wing on the SwiftAir 235 leads to more in-flight breakups? What is the basis for your conclusion? What other factors might have contributed to the accident and should be taken into account? What is your preliminary recommendation about whether or not DynaTech should buy the plane and what is the basis for this recommendation?