“People don’t leave companies- They leave bad bosses”- D. Goleman
My ah ha moment during our staff meeting today when we were discussing the pros and cons of promoting Google hangouts was: “If I force a child to come to me they will never come, if I flex and meet them where they are at they can be drawn”.…
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Loading...In week 3 of the #TeachtheWeb MOOC, we were asked to find someone to collaborate with and create something together. The theme for the week was the open web and that was the inspiration for our collaborative work.
I loved the guiding blog post that was written for this week because it succinctly and accessibly covered some of the most important issues around openness: decentralization, transparency, hacakability, ownership/authorship, collaboration and remixed derivations.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Bryan Alexander is blogging with frequency again (hooray!), in his exemplary educator style — pose a topic, add information, perhaps include an informed opinion, and rather than end the blog with a definitive period have it linger for further discussion.
He is currently musing on the cost of college, the decline in college enrollments, and the general purpose of college in today’s society. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This week we built our own community on the floor of our classroom. Mrs. van Rees put tape on the floor for roads and we did the rest. We brainstormed different things a community needs and then each of us took a specific thing to create.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Around 2006-2007, our lives began to change as Web 2.0 technologies transformed the Web from a static repository of content into an interactive dialogue. Before long, most of us were reading blog posts written by ……
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Personalized professional development (PPD) means you use your personal learning networks (PLN) to develop a plan for expanding your skill sets. With your PPD plan, you determine the skills you want to focus on, like ……
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I’ve been busy – very busy. Developing curriculum for my district and helping to develop a new revitalized Academy program for the arts and honors academics at my school. Whilst on the journey I have returned to Evernote as my to-do list.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This week I delivered a careers talk to a group of PGCE students who are about to cross the finishing line and grab their first post as a qualified teacher. As it’s job hunting season, plus i’m about to start a new position in learning technology, I thought a post on how I’ve used the internet to job hunt might be useful.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Well, currently I am enrolled in Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence (Coursera) and Teachtheweb through Mozilla, plus being a member of several communities so I am feeling a little s t r e t c h e d. Both physically and mentally, so the power outage last night that shut the computer off and sent me to bed early was probably a good thing.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On May 1st I hosted an #etmchat about Curricular Transformation for the Post #etmooc Blog Reading Group. Here is an archive of the chat.
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