Episode #44 is up for your listening pleasure and boy is it a doozy! It clocks in at just under 42 minutes! Yikes! Episode #44 is kind of a unique episode because it features a recording of a live event. Back on November 14th I was lucky enough to attend the Powering Up with Technology Conference in Prince George's County Maryland. At that conference I presented a session called Alternative Professional Development. I use the term "presented" loosely because, although I was listed as the presenter, the session was more of an integrated brainstorming session. I was more of the moderator for the discussion than a presenter. During the session we tried to outline some of the common problems with staff development happening in public schools and then try to come up with some solutions. During the course of the discussion a bunch of great ideas were mentioned about how to address some of the problems with the typical professional development model. Furthermore, a number of concrete resources are mentioned that can be used to assist students. You can access the entire presentation as generated by the audience here: Alternative Professional Development Presentation from PUWT09.
Presentation on gesture-based learning using Avatar Kinect by Christopher Bugaj, Tara Jeffs, Karen Dietrich, and Mark Nichols as presented at Closing the Gap 2013
The slide deck for the UDL presentation done by Chris and Mark at Blue Ridge Middle School in the Fall of 2014. Not all slides were presented. http://bit.ly/brmbrainpower
The slide deck for the UDL presentation done by Chris, Mark, and Tara at Eagle Ridge Middle School in December 2014. Not all slides were presented. http://bit.ly/ermbrainpower
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