Year: 2007
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Instructional Technology: PASSport II Resources for Oklahoma
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM A PRESENTATION BY CATHY BATTLES AT THE 2007 OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S ANNUAL SUMMER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON JULY 11, 2007. THE TITLE OF THE SESSION (WHICH WAS CO-PRESENTED WITH ERIC HILEMAN) WAS “Instructional Technology: PASSport II and eRate.” MY COMMENTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS, NOTES ARE IN…
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Building Academic Vocabulary (Robert Marzano)
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM ROBERT MARZANO’S PRESENTATION “BUILDING ACADEMIC VOCABULARY” AT THE OKLAHOMA STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION’S ANNUAL LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON JULY 10, 2007 IN OKLAHOMA CITY. I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION AND WILL POST LATER (WITH DR. MARZANO’S PERMISSION, OF COURSE) THE RECORDING AS A PODCAST HERE. I WILL NOTE THAT I AM,…
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The New Era of Comprehensive School Reform: Three Critical Interventions for Effective District/School Reform (Robert Marzano)
THESE ARE MY NOTES FROM DR. ROBERT MARZANO’S PRESENTATION AT LEADERSHIP ’07 IN OKLAHOMA CITY ON 10 JULY 2007. MY COMMENTS / REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Now work at McRel in Aurora and live in Denver I will be very concrete in this presentation, nothing really inspirational – story about being in a family…
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The importance of freely sharing ideas
I’m attending our Oklahoma “2007 State Superintendent’s Annual Leadership Conference” today in Oklahoma City. We’re about to hear the keynote address by Dr. Robert Marzano, whose book (and the title of his presentation) “School Leadership That Works” is among a collection of books I’ve bought from Amazon.COM but not yet read. If I could suspend…
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iPhone First Impressions
Wow. I am amazed, stunned, blown away, and thoroughly pleased after spending the last few hours playing with my new iPhone. 🙂 In addition to making calls, surfing the web, updating twitter, listening to some songs (the built-in speaker sounds great) I watched a Wallace and Gromit short movie (20 min, “A Grand Day Out”)…
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Graphic design fun
It’s not often I take time to play with a graphic design– I’m not a graphic designer by trade… I’ve taught a few Adobe PhotoShop workshops and love dabbling with PhotoShop, but I’m certainly not an expert or “artiste” when it comes to making graphics. The banner image of my blog is an important element…
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Understanding stress
I’m about a fourth of the way through David Allen’s outstanding book “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” I mentioned this book to a friend yesterday with the comment, “This book is going to change my life by helping me really get more organized and efficient with my use of time,” and I…
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The iPhone cometh and inspires inquiry
It has been interesting to track the delivery path of my iPhone the last few days, which is set for delivery on Tuesday of this coming week. When I told my 9 year old it was shipping from Shenzhen, China, his first question was, “Why is the iPhone made in China?” Rather than tell him…
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K-12 Online Conference 2007 Presenters!
Lani Ritter Hall has posted (on behalf of all 4 co-conveners) the official list of the 2007 K-12 Online Conference presenters and their presentation titles! Those 36 presentations (9 per strand) will be shared in addition to the previously announced keynote presentations in each strand, and the pre-conference keynote by David Warlick, for a total…
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What do you do online?
The June 11, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek included an interesting chart titled “Who Participates and What People are Doing Online,” as part of their article “Web Strategies That Cater To Customers.” The chart is a matrix breaking down people’s use of media into the following categories: Creators, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators, and Inactives. I think…