Clif Mims has some great ideas and I’m glad he’s a part of my PLN. Today he has challenged those of us who follow him to set some professional development goals for the summer. Here’s the meme that he started:
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Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a [...]
Social Bookmarking would benefit a number of teachers in my school. I am thinking specifically of working together to build a list of bookmarks that would be somewhat like a Portaportal. I have created a portaportal for both schools, but I am the only one building them. This limits the viability and growth potential of [...]
Sharon Elin has a great Educational Technology focused blog. I subsribe using my iGoogle reader, but will add it to my blogroll here…
I found out about this new search tool while reading the CRSTE newsletter . I searched for Educational Technology and was amazed at the articles, videos, blog posts, pictures, clipart etc. all returned in a visual format. Definitely a cool resource that I will bookmark.
What a title right? I’ve seen about 3 references to this recently…I was slightly intrigued each time. Today, trying to “get into” doing my homework for a PD class I am taking, I ran across Al Rowell aka locotech – a fellow learner in the class. I decided that as a technology director who seemed [...]
I got this link from Karen Bosch aka karlyb one of the folks in my PLN. Karen is a technology teacher in Detroit and a DEN Star.
Karen suggests that all elementary teachers keep up with the Kids Ed Websites blog. Lots of good stuff on there. Check it out for yourself.
WOW…I just finished a class in Second Life. Riptide, one of the DEN in SL leaders, gave a class on using the camera and taking pictures in Second Life. So now I need to practice. My skills are still pretty aweful. Not that Ripide didn’t try…I’m just am a slow learner. So we learned to pan [...]
My thanks to Christine Southard who shared this mid-year check-up via plurk. Christine is a fellow DEN Star in my Personal Learning Network (PLN). For those of you who don’t know, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and [...]
