There’s an excellent learning event underway for NB educators in Fredericton this week. LearnEast 2.0.11, a high quality, low cost event attended by 200 keen teachers from around the province, has been organized by Bryan Facey (@Faceyman) and Jeff Whipple (@jeffwhipple) of District 18 and Jay Colpitts (@JayColpitts) of District 14. …
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Loading...How many times have you heard someone working in a school say that the purpose of the organization “isn’t all fun and games?” How many times have you heard an educator or administrator say something like, “it’s school, it’s not SUPPOSED to be fun!”?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Here’s a problem I bet every teacher wishes they had: A friend of mine (a math teacher) is continually getting asked by his students for bonus assignments so they can get extra marks. He recently put out a request on Facebook for help with some ideas about revamping his bonus assignments so that the assignments would contribute to his students becoming well-rounded citizens rather than just high achieving math students (thanks to his brilliant teaching I’m sure ;)).…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It has been a week since I returned from the most uplifting professional/personal development event I have ever participated in – Unplug’d 2011.
In the week that has gone by I’ve immersed myself in the afterglow of the event through sharing with the Uplug’d crew on twitter and flickr and even occasionally on ds106 radio. …
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Unpacking, reminiscing and wondering…
I’ve finished unpacking all my clothes and bags from Unplugd11 but I’ve only just begun to unpack and make sense of what happened during this magical event now lovingly refered to as #unplugd11.
The week or so leading up to the weekend had me filled with nervous excitement.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...Vance Stephens who is one of the creators of the Webheads network is one of the people who constantly inspires me with his thinking and writing. Today I read this article and this article.
The first article introduced me to the concept of a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
It pointed me to this blog where a short video video gives a quick over view of what MOOC is.…
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