SJR Teacher/Learners

My PLN helps me be a better educator and prepare my students daily.

If someone follows you in Twitter, the polite thing to do is reciprocate, right? Well, maybe so, but I think it needs a little more thought than that. Here is a list of the steps I take when someone follows me.

Simple, effective online collaboration Multi-user whiteboard, live audio, image collaboration, text-chat and more

We know students do plenty of listening in our classes, but what about the other three communication skills they should be engaging in and practicing daily?

The ultimate goal of literacy instruction is to build a student's comprehension, writing skills, and overall skills in communication.

Students need to be writing every day, in every classroom

I found the videos and other resources that I used in the presentation. Here is a list of the materials I used and also some of the other ones I didn’t use, but are worthwhile looking at depending on your audience.

Ultimately the importance of technology or its absence pales in comparison to the importance of a teacher's attitude, effort, and success. More opinionated academics and nonacademics alike need to view teachers in action and see whether they connect with their students and get the job done. Some of these wonderful and successful teachers will have beautifully planned and integrated technological endeavors, and some will have a whiteboard, chalkboard, or a circle of desks in the center of the room.

21st century learning is about the experience, not about the tools you are using. The experience defines the tools, not the other way around.

“What ICT is going to help my children learn by helping them to become resourceful and habitual learners — engaged in a learning lifestyle?”

Voicethread for Educators group. Place to share ideas and get questions asked for using Voicethread in the classroom.

Wetoku is a free service for quickly conducting, recording, and sharing video interviews using your webcam.

Wallwisher is “an online notice board maker.” Kind of a bleak description so to spice it up a little, Wallwisher is an online collaboration tool to share ideas, resources, and thoughts on a particular topic

As Professional Development providers, we must practice with our students (in this case the teachers are our students) what we preach

I believe that meaningful work can also teach students to love challenges, to enjoy effort, to be resilient, and to value their own improvement. In other words, we can design and present learning tasks in a way that helps students develop a growth mindset, which leads to not just short-term achievement but also long-term success.

This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You’ll find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

almost half of the “sexual solicitations” came not from “predators” or adults but from other teens

they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"

National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now

If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.

His phrases like "global village" and predictions about new media making old media obsolete and the rise of tribalism have become a reality. In the digital era, people all over the world are connected by the internet and Facebook and Twitter .