This is a blog post from Presentation Zen on storyboarding. Embedded in the blog post is a video from Disney about their use of storyboarding. The post and video might be useful to share with students when developing projects that are best organized through storyboards.
A blog post from Dangerously Irrelevant provides a glimpse into adding annotations and highlights on digital devices and then sharing them - Using tools like Kindle, iPad and iPod Touch and applications such as Evernote and iAnnotate.
"As school districts explore the use of social computing throughout the school day and as an approach to extend instruction, many educators are making the decision to create a wiki, publish video online, or to participate in blogging, social networking or virtual worlds. Social media guidelines encourage educators to participate in social computing and strive to create an atmosphere of trust and individual accountability."
For librarians, and for most other professionals, the game has changed. There is no textbook for new practice, and it is absolutely true that some of us are a little more retooled than others. Nevertheless, there are at least 14 retooled learning strategies that teacher-librarians should be sharing with classroom teachers and learners in the 2009-2010 school year.
This is a blog entry post-Hacking Education Conference. It does challenge the thinking behind "reinventing" education. What is realistic and what is not....
Are your students collecting RSS feeds in Google Reader, bookmarking sites as a group in Delicious, blogging, interviewing content area experts they found through Google Scholar, and teaching the section of the course for which they are responsible? Wendy Drexler's students are doing all of this. This is a must listen for those of us who dream of the day when education is a more active, accountable process for students and teachers.
"Last month, Erica Goldson graduated as valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School. Instead of using her graduation speech to celebrate the triumph of her victory, the school, and the teachers that made it happen, she channeled her inner Ivan Illich and de-constructed the logic of a valedictorian and the whole educational system."
We hear a lot about the 21st Century learner - But what about the 21st Century Teacher?
What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator? Well, we know they are student centric, holistic, they are teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know too, that they must be 21st Century learners as well. But highly effective teachers in today's classrooms are more than this - much more.