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Justin Reeve

WordPress › WP Teacher « WordPress Plugins - 0 views

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wordpress plugin teacher teachers student students courses

shared by Justin Reeve on 07 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Reeve on 07 Jan 13
     
    WP Teacher is a plugin that allows teachers to use WordPress to their advantage by integrating course content into their personal website to enhance student learning. WP Teacher is built with easy-to-use features that will make his or her WordPress experience easier. WP Teacher functions like typical blog postings, but it provides additional features to maximize student learning. All the features work together. The plugin is maximized for customization, which makes it perfect for multi-site WordPress installation.
Eric Ebbs

Social software: E-learning beyond learning management systems - 6 views

I like the article because it pushes the concept of teaching outside the box. It emphasizes that instructors should not limit their instruction to within a Learning Management System and the tools...

social learning network knowledge LMS

started by Eric Ebbs on 31 Aug 10 1 follow-up, last by Eric Ebbs on 31 Aug 10
glorihinck

meetup.com - 5 views

Stephen, meetup.com looks like a perfect network to help you with your goal of teaching American Military History online. Not only will you learn more about the content and make contacts, you can ...

www.meetup.com

started by Stephen Lazowski on 30 Aug 10 1 follow-up, last by glorihinck on 30 Aug 10
glorihinck

Online Social Networks course - 2 views

www.ibiblio.org/...Main_Page

shared by glorihinck on 28 Aug 10 - Cached
  • glorihinck on 28 Aug 10
     
    Check out this course described as a primer on the study of online social networks that is taught using a wiki and a Facebook group.
Lisa Dawley

Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge | Technology Enhanced Knowledge... - 1 views

tekri.athabascau.ca/...onments-networks-and-knowledge

PLE pln siemens downes kop

shared by Lisa Dawley on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
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  • Lisa Dawley on 28 Sep 10
     
    Open Course through Athabasca University
tsurridge

Want to be a great teacher? Don't go to PD. - 6 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...eat-teacher-dont-go-to-pd.html

PLN Professional Development Technology

shared by tsurridge on 06 Sep 10 - Cached
  • tsurridge on 06 Sep 10
     
    I have led professional development, and shaped a series of professional development classes, to assist teachers in the adoption of one to one laptop programs. Saying that, I couldn't agree with this blog post more. The dynamic change in resource for teachers, and the ever shifting landscape of technology, makes many teachers feel a sense of frustration in attempting to get a handle on what's "out there". This post articulates, and I believe my experience validates, that the answer to engaging these issues does not lie in more and more professional development, but rather, assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks for both support and guidance. PLN's are not only more effectual, professional development is expensive. I brought someone in to help our teachers establish personal PLN's, but I don't believe I properly considered how important this was to the process. As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. ts
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  • Dennis Lecker on 06 Sep 10
     
    In 13 years of teaching, I remember only one PD that was worth its salt. The gathering included a presentation pertaining to the use Microsoft Excel to organize various educational particulars. However, on the other hand, that we then acquired GradeQuick, EasyGradePro, and finally another grading program rendered any and all information acquired during the PD moot. I did use Excel, however, to organize data related to my other job, that having been the management a large private club along the lines of a Moose, Elks or Legion. But getting back to the link, I have to admit that I was very amused at the attached video which showed two professionals trapped on an escalator. The situation brought to mind a quote from Robert Pirsig when he wrote: "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away." … In summary, that most PDs are constructed from detached administrators who have lost touch with what is actually occuring "on the ground" may be partly responsible with the author's dislike of PDs. ...Regarding assisting teachers in the creation of their own learning networks, I can point to a wonderful article on the benefits of having "exemplary" teachers in a school. http://www.citejournal.org/vol1/iss2/seminal/article1.htm
  • Lisa Dawley on 06 Sep 10
     
    >>As I'm quickly learning, PLN creation and engagement may well be at the foundation of any school transformation. This was one of those "wow" statements for me, and really hit home. I'm currently in Australia finishing up some PD in online curriculum design with a group of really talented teachers at MLC School. While I'm not ready to throw out live PD (we learned and did so much in 3 days!), your sentence caused me to reflect on the importance of teacher education programs and schools helping teachers learn how to establish a successful PLN that meets their needs. Love it...thanks for helping me to refocus with this simple and powerful statement.
  • Eric Ebbs on 07 Sep 10
     
    At first I laughed at the video on the page because I thought it was funny that the people were unwilling to move without the assistance of others until I realized that at one time I was one of the people on the escalator. I believed strongly in learning from PD and did not have many contacts or connections. It was through those PD sessions though, I was able to begin building a PLN. I was able to acquire email addresses and phone numbers from members attending, and they were able to give me access to links, listservs, web blogs, etc. to increase my knowledge. I have access to free PD when available through my PLN. I'm not quite ready to give up my PD, as I still glean useful information and contacts from my sessions to add to my PLN. I believe that PD should be used to enchance your PLN and allow you more opportunities. The PLN should not be the end of PD either. Both should be available to allow users to expand their knowlege.
  • aeckel on 08 Sep 10
     
    What a great visual of such a helpless attitude that schools and teachers can have! It was interesting for me to read how PD can be a lazy approach to professional knowledge. I had never quite thought of it that way before but it makes sense. It is knowledge that is handed to you rather then knowledge that is discovered. In a lot of my EdTech courses I have learned that learning is done best when there is some form of personal interaction. It makes sense that PLNs are a better way of motivating and learning. I really enjoyed this article and love seeing visuals like this that connect to a bigger concept. Powerful stuff!
  • glorihinck on 09 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, what are your thoughts on the future of PLN's at your workplace? What can you do to help guide the process? Perhaps a final project could be be related to this topic?
  • tsurridge on 09 Sep 10
     
    If I were to be honest (and I guess, why not), I would like to develop professional development that would assist learners toward meaningful understanding and engagement of PLN's. For me, the missing link is the PLE. I'm still grappling with that myself. What should my computer screen look like? I get your dingo's, the elephant head thing, tweetering, et al. I still struggle with a mental picture of how my new computer screen looks. What exactly is going on there? I think that is step one in this. Somehow. I'm going to figure this out. Somehow. And yes, I get the irony of posting a PD is dead reflection-and than wanting to create PD. Kind of not functionally getting it.....still missing something visually.....hmmmmm.....(love the process though:)..... ts
  • glorihinck on 12 Sep 10
     
    Timothy, I am confident that by the end of the term you will have a handle on this brave new world- including your computer screen.
Libby Cody

Interesting Blog with many relevant topics - 0 views

www.pbs.org/...social_networking

learning social Network education knowledge

shared by Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Libby Cody on 09 Sep 10
     
    Andy Carvin is the host of this PBS blog that covers everything from the extent to which teachers are obligated to police the social networks to a student nearly being expelled for administering a facebook study group for his college course. The posts were thought provoking as were some of the responses.
Brenda Janot

Professional Learning Community-Global Health Promotion - 6 views

http://brendajanot.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/personal-learning-communities/ During the course of compiling the information for this assignment I connected my recent experience in Geneva with anothe...

PLC Health Promtion 2.0

started by Brenda Janot on 12 Oct 10 no follow-up yet
anonymous

Librarians Who Lead - 0 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

librarians DistrictAdministration

shared by anonymous on 15 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Instead of investing in scads of state-of-the-art computers and expensive commercially produced courseware, she says, the school district has made a remarkable investment in the high school’s human resources.
  • there was an improvement on the annual Connecticut Academic Performance Test.”
  • We have six years’ worth of analysis of annotated bibliographies, which we consider the hallmark of higher-order thinking— evaluation of reading, as opposed to regurgitation.
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  • Luhtala and other members of the high school’s Information and Communication Technology team have woven Moodle, the free, open-source, online course management software, into the curriculum.
  • “We work with a fair amount of data to measure student learning in information and communication technology. We also rely on emerging technology to communicate and collaborate with students and teachers.”
  • The library media center’s home page entices students, teachers and parents to click on a colorful lineup of icons familiar to everyone who enjoys connecting via social media: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, and VoiceThread, which the library has been using to promote book chats and reading for pleasure. Luhtala also regularly posts instructional videos on the Web for students and teachers.
  • “A librarian today is a facilitator and a leader for the teachers, for curricular learning, for interdisciplinary instruction, and is also a professional development person,” Luhtala says. “But we’re still school-based teachers. And it’s actually kind of beautiful. We like it just that way.”
glorihinck

Educational Networks - 7 views

www.educationalnetworking.com/List+of+Networks

Networking social learning network pln

shared by glorihinck on 25 Sep 10 - Cached
  • glorihinck on 25 Sep 10
     
    A comprehensive listing of social networks used in educational environments. It includes links to topic areas that may be of use to teachers in this course. For example- art.
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  • Lisa Dawley on 25 Sep 10
     
    Awesome list! I'm going to include this in our next module as we look at professional learning communities, thanks!
  • anonymous on 25 Sep 10
     
    Glori- This is a really cool page!! I just scrolled through it and looked at some of the links. It is so helpful that people work so hard to create these "compilation sites" for those of us that have such limited time to do hours of surfing on the net to find sites we need to use for school, work, etc. Super cool!! Thanks!
  • Deana Braden on 02 Aug 13
     
    How helpful! I love how these sites are divided into sections of what we are interested in. I will come back to this page several times during the next year. Thanks for finding this!
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