Category: pbl
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Save the Date! PodStock 2010: July 16-17
It’s coming and you won’t want to miss it! The 2010 PodStock conference will be held July 16-17, 2010, at the Old Town Hotel in Wichita, Kansas. The 2009 PodStock conference was a GREAT event, made superb by the contributions of lots of creative educators from around the midwest of the USA and beyond. Mark…
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Global Awareness, Community Service and Classroom Project Ideas
It is very important we help students in our classrooms develop deeper, broader, authentic world views through the information we share and collaborative activities in which we engage together during and after class. It is also critical we help students develop values like respect, empathy, and compassion. Learning is most powerful when it is experiential…
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In Praise of Outdoor School, Ed Holzberger, Classen SAS and Oklahoma City Public Schools
This past Wednesday, my 11 year old son and I were on a three mile hike in the Arbuckle Mountains of south-central Oklahoma, heading to “three falls” about a mile from from Camp Classen. I turned to him and said, “Wow, isn’t this amazing? Just think, you could be sitting in school today, and here…
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Podcast330: Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!
This podcast is a recorded presentation from the Podstock 2009 conference on May 1 in Wichita, Kansas, by some of the most innovative elementary teachers you could ever hope to meet. Linley Voboril, Tamara Padfield, and Kimberly Herron presented this session titled, Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!…
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Interviews and subway videos from Hong Kong International Schools (Part 1)
Here’s a collection of four, short video interviews from this past Wednesday with different school administrators in Hong Kong and from our journey on the MTR (Hong Kong’s subway system) between schools. In this 40 second clip, Deputy Head of College Peter Lasscock explains “rapid prototyping” and how the technology design lab at Discovery College…
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Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0’s Role in Schools?
These are my notes to the “Classsroom 2.0: What Is Web 2.0’s Role in Schools?” at NECC 2009. This was a panel discussion. I captured the entire backchannel for this session as a PDF file. Thanks to Vicki Davis for setting up the backchannel in Chatzy! Julie Lindsey: I covet the learning connections and networks…
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Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!
These are my notes from the NECC 2009 session “Best Practices for Encouraging Learning 24/7: Models that Work!” Official program description is: Several distinguished educators will offer actual examples of 24/7 learning approaches to educational practice. Can these technology-based, best practices inform your classroom teaching? Presenters are: Michael Searson, Kean University with Judith Beaver, Andrew…
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Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!
These are my notes from the presentation “Get Out of Your FUNK, Cut the JIVE! Make Your Classroom Come Alive!!!” Presented by – Kim Herron, Tamara Padfield, Linley Voboril from Inman Elementary School: Inman, Kansas. This was shared at the PodStock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, hosted by ESSDACK. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN…
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Getting a Global Perspective – The Power of Collaborative Projects by Dyane Smokorowski
These are my notes from “Getting a Global Perspective – The Power of Collaborative Projects” by Dyane Smokorowski at the PodStock09 conference in Wichita, Kansas. Her wiki with links for this session is on: http://podstock.wik.is MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THIS IS VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURE WISE TO DR JUDY HARRIS’ TELECOMPUTING PROJECTS FRAMEWORK WHICH…
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Episode 1 of the International Cooking Show
When I visited New Zealand at the end of February 2009 for the Learning@School conference, I met Mr W00dy and we came up with a rather creative project idea. It seems we both have young daughters who love cooking, and would like to share their cooking with others. Why not start an International Cooking Show,…