I am checking out Tumblr—found out about it on Twitter. I want to know how this Web2.0 site may or may not be useful in the classroom.…
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Loading...For the past two years I’ve been completing my Bachelor’s of Education in Adult Education through Brock University. Completing this degree was something I had set as a goal for myself and it was part of some unfinished educational business for me.…
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I was excited about exit cards today, but the results were not so exciting!
I asked my students to complete exit cards today as a blog comment. Not really successful. The exit card was pretty basic as the material was a review.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Over the past few months I’ve become an enthusiastic advocate and user of Scoop.it. It is no longer in Beta and has now gone public. It is a fantastic way to compile resources on a single topic and to share these resources with others who can choose to follow your updates.…
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Today it snowed both inside and out as I used a “snowball” activity to introduce our wikispace literature discussions and appropriately Mother Nature gave us our first snowfall to set the stage.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...ECOO11 was a first for me for many reasons. It was my first time attending. It was my first time meeting people face to face that I had communicated with on twitter. AND, it was my first time a conference was so closely connected to my current professional PD that the conversations, and learnings are continuing and building as we continue to connect.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...Up early this morning to work on my first assignment for my course which is outlining my ‘plan’ for my personal inquiry narrative. My final product for this project will include text, video and images so while I was working on my ‘plan’ I ended up creating two wordles using words I use to describe how I learn and words that I value as an educator…
Alana as Learner
Alana as Educator
While I tend to shy away from using labels or descriptors I am comfortable with the label of learner…
What words do you use to describe yourself as a learner?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It’s been six weeks since the unplug’d11 community said goodbye and we all headed back to our regular lives. But we were not the same people returning to our normal routine. Many of us had formed friendships with people we had never met before based on common passions, and we had experienced an openness with each other that we believed was rare in a classical PD venue.…
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