I posted this today in an online forum our district technology director facilitates for teachers in MyBigCampus. It’s a closed community / walled garden so I’m posting my response here instead of linking to it. I’m not sure we need to “teach technology.” Do we “teach pencil?” Technology is a term we most often use
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I received an email recently from an Oklahoma teacher interested in creating a mobile app for a summer conference which would work on different kinds of smartphones including iPhones, Android phones, and Blackberry phones. Here’s my reply. What would you add to this or change in my reply? If you’re looking to share information with
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Today in Yukon Public Schools, our Common Core Coaching (CCC) teachers created an eBook about ways we have been using technology in our lives. This is an enhanced eBook, including photos of artwork the teachers drew and audio recordings about each picture. We created this nine part eBook in 25 minutes at the end of
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These are my notes from Tony Davis and Kent Davis’ presentation, “Principal Evaluation System from McREL” on February 28, 2012, at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Teacher Leader Effectiveness (TLE) “road show” presentation in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The Tulsa Principal
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These are my notes from Jana Burk’s presentation, “Tulsa Public Schools Teacher Evaluation Model” on February 28, 2012, by leaders from TPS at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Teacher Leader Effectiveness (TLE) “road show” presentation in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. We
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These are my notes from the presentation, “Selecting an Instructional Framework for Teacher Evaluation” on February 28, 2012, by Elaine Phillips, Danielson Group Charter Member, www.danielsongroup.org. Elaine shared these remarks at the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Teacher Leader Effectiveness (TLE) “road show” presentation in Oklahoma City at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. MY
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(Cross-posted from playingwithmedia.com) In this 3.5 minute screencast, digital learning consultant Wesley Fryer demonstrates how to use the $4 iPad application “eBook Creator” to export an enhanced eBook (in ePub format) to the DropBox application, and then email a public link to the ePub to a Posterous blog so it will “post” as a publicly
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(cross-posted to Storychasers.org) The free iOS app Moveable and its complementary web tool by Moveable Feast (currently invite-only) allow anyone to create and share “multimedia narratives.” These can be walking tours of a historic area in your community, for example, including text, images, and videos all connected to GPS coordinates and a “virtual trail” people
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For the past two weeks (at least since February 14, 2012, when I first saw the position posted) Oklahoma City Public Schools has officially listed a position opening for “Executive Director Information Technology.” Information about the position is only visible, however, when someone creates a free applicant account on the district’s 3rd party personnel application
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At LONG last (I’ve needed to do this literally for years) I’ve added a new page to my site/blog for “Social Media Consulting Services.” This is linked under the drop-down menu for “ABOUT” at the top, but if you’re viewing my site on a mobile device you may not see that link. I encourage you
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I’ve created a new page on my blog which I’ve titled, “Essential Media.” This is linked under the drop-down menu for “Resources” at the top, but if you’re viewing my site on a mobile device you may not see that link. I encourage you to visit and bookmkark/save it. At this point, here’s what I’m
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These are my notes from Linda Everett‘s presentation, “Text Complexity” at the “21st Century Learning: Transitioning to the Common Core” conference at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City on February 23, 2012. (Technically we’re in Bethany.) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. The printed handout provided for participants in this session is “Common
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These are my notes from the presentation by Louis Barlow (of Barlow Education Management Services) titled “Recent Developments in Oklahoma Teacher Evaluation” at the “21st Century Learning: Transitioning to the Common Core” conference at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City on February 23, 2012. (Technically we’re in Bethany.) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL
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These are my notes from the presentation by Dr Rebecca Wilkinson (of Barlow Education Management Services) titled “Developing Student Thinking Skills for College, Career and Citizenship” at the “21st Century Learning: Transitioning to the Common Core” conference at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City on February 23, 2012. (Technically we’re in Bethany.) MY THOUGHTS AND
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These are my notes from Nick Migliorino’s presentation, “The Future is Now: IT in Common Core” at the “21st Century Learning: Transitioning to the Common Core” conference at Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City on February 23, 2012. (Technically we’re in Bethany.) MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I hate handouts My philosophy
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Karl Springer, the superintendent of Oklahoma City Public Schools, shared a passionate and clear message with Oklahoma State Superintendent Janet Barresi and Oklahoma City constituents today at a press conference: Local control of our Oklahoma public schools is a vital, important part of our democracy and the state department of education does NOT have the
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(Cross-posted to Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools and playingwithmedia.com) AudioBoo is a fantastic website and free mobile application to use for recording and sharing student voices. AudioBoo does not, however, currently support “comment moderation.” This means anyone can leave a comment on an audio recording you post to your AudioBoo channel and it will
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(Cross-posted to ipadwithwes.com) ShowMe is a free application for iPad which permits anyone to create narrated slideshow videos which can include telestrator (“John Madden”) style annotations. The following 7 minute video tutorial highlights the steps to follow to create a narrated slideshow with the ShowMe iPad app, using a photo gallery in Picasa (free from
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(Cross-posted to Instructional FAQs for Yukon Public Schools and playingwithmedia.com) ShowMe is a free application for iPad which permits anyone to create narrated slideshow videos which can include telestrator (“John Madden”) style annotations. The following twenty-five images highlight the steps to follow in the ShowMe iPad app, using a photo gallery in Picasa (free from
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These are my notes from Robert La Grasssa’s presentation, “Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model: Based on the Art and Science of Teaching” in Yukon Public Schools on February 21, 2012. Robert is “Director of District Partnerships” for “Learning Sciences International, provider of iObservation.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. BACKGROUND: ALL OKLAHOMA SCHOOL
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