So I really wanted to share this blog with #lpsconnects. The blog is interesting and has quite a few different ideas on how to incorporate iPads into the classroom. Very interesting...
French teacher by day, father and blogger by night. I love to blog and read tech blogs. I write an iPad blog as it relates to education. I teach young kids the French language and love my job. I play the guitar and piano. I have a beautiful wife and two awesome daughters and maltese-poodle mix.
This is so great! I think so often teachers think we always have to start at the beginning but how do we really know where every person's "beginning" is? Just another reminder that everyone (including adults) learn at a different pace.
So, maybe instead of encouraging (pushing) others to contribute blogs and tweets and ideas, maybe we begin by having a conversation about the value of lurking. Show there is value in what we have here and in other social networks by encouraging others to get connected and take from the network. That just might lead to the growth of our networks.
A blog by a high school math teacher of 21 years in Canfield, OH. Lots of great info and use of diigo by sharing lists and articles interesting to blog readers. A great resource and fun to read!
An interesting share-out post from an administrator who started becoming networked last year. It talks about how he got started and how important it is to develop these social networks.
I really like the idea of genius hour and what it represents. Teachers want this kind of autonomy to learn what they want to learn...why wouldn't students?
"In other words, you're mixing a little bit of tech with a little bit of in-classroom learning and you're getting something better than the sum of its parts. "
Take a look at the Seven Norms of Collaboration in terms of helping our adults engage in higher-level thinking and collaboration.
creating a highly collaborative classroom, teachers need to model listening, paraphrasing, artful questioning and negotiation any and every chance they get.
Watch the 'redesigning the shopping cart' and then ask yourself, how could we use groups to redesign education? The discussion definitely requires that there is not 'one' expert.
No matter what browser you choose to use, you can sign-up for a Google Reader account with your student account. Keep in mind, if you use Chrome, you can add the Google Reader app to your homepage making it easier to find your new blog feeds. This video is right at a minute and shares basic information about Google Reader. Keep in mind, there are many RSS choices out there - Google Reader is just one such option.
This process would be an interesting way to take a blog post and have a discussion about appropriate tagging.
tag cloud
because students are familiar with tagging through tagging their blog posts, when we talk about social bookmarking they have a much better idea of how to tag the Web sites they bookmark.
This would be an interesting PD activity to help our adult learners better undersand tagging and how they could incorporate this in the social setting such as using diigo.