Year: 2007
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New link for Mother’s Day Podcasts
Carol Anne McGuire’s “Mother’s Day Podcasts” are some of my favorite examples to share with educators whenever I’m teaching about podcasting. The link to those podcasts has recently been updated with 2007 additions, and I got the new one from Carol. It’s now correct on my Intro to Podcasting wiki curriculum. My favorite is still…
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Blogging can make you smarter
I’ve written a new post over on the ITM titled “Blogging can make you smarter.” I originally included the following two paragraphs in the post as well, but I thought maybe the personal tone of these sentences was more appropriate here rather than on the ITM: I am so appreciative of recent guest bloggers here…
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Dear Student, (fill in your name)
Thanks to Wes for this opportunity. Thanks to students everywhere for this inspiration. Thanks to teachers and administrators for all you do. Dear student, Thank you for kicking off this series of letters. I must say you have given me pause for thought. However, your questions are really unsettling and puzzling to me. Your questions…
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Dear administrator,
Guest blogger, Cheryl Oakes, reporting for duty! Dear administrator, I am writing after an exhausting year of instructing my students. I want to thank you for hiring me and keeping me in this position. I have been teaching this same content for the past 5, 10, 15 years ( you choose). Each year it gets…
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Dear Teacher, ( substitute your name here)
I am writing a similar disclaimer as Jen Wagner did just recently. Thanks Wes for allowing me to be a guest blogger. With a 3 day span I am really challenged to produce a daily post. Well, here goes. These ideas and opinions are mine and do not reflect Wes’ thinking on these subjects. Dear…
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Professional development and professional learning networks are key
I’ve been reading through some of the recent posts on the EduStat blog, and ran across Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach’s post “Teacher 2.0 – What Matters” reflecting on Joel Klein’s presentation at the “Teacher 2.0: Developing the 21st Century Workforce” conference. (Klein is the Chancellor of the New York Department of Education.) This is the paragraph that…
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Tests scores are up, what does that mean?
Tuesday’s AP article, “Report: Math and reading scores up since NCLB” observes many U.S. states are reporting better student performance on mandated K-12 student tests: Moderate to large gains were found in 37 of the 41 states with trend data on the percentage of kids hitting the proficient mark on elementary-school math tests. None of…
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EduComm and NECC, coming up soon!
Sylvia Martinez wrote a good plug and summary of reasons to attend EduComm in a few weeks in Anaheim, California. (June 19-21) I’m looking forward to both attending and sharing some presentations there for the first time. My travel to southern California has been pretty limited in my lifetime, I can still count my number…
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A powerful portrait of immigration
I wrote recently about “Humanizing discussions about immigration and borders.” This evening while searching online for a series of videos Marco Torres created with Australian administrators awhile back (which I did not find) I ran across his amazing documentary “tocayo”, linked from his misc. productions movie page. This story of Marco Antonio Vasquez’s experience risking…
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New videos to share with educators
Last night when chatting with Miguel Guhlin about ideas for sharing with and teaching administrators about technology leadership, he shared the following videos I hadn’t seen or considered before. I’ve added these to a new del.icio.us tag I’ve started, presentationvideos. For videos on YouTube and TeacherTube, I’ve added those to my respective favorite playlists. (My…