If you are looking for some summer fun, consider CLMOOC, a highly flexible online collaboration of educators exploring Connected Learning and maker education. If you’ve heard about maker ed but aren’t quite sure what it is, this is a great
Learning to learn
After writing earlier this week (and thinking a lot about this over the last year) about teaching kids to learn, I’m thinking now about how we provide professional development to teachers and wondering if the whole approach is flawed. There
Integrating handhelds
This is a short presentation on integrating handhelds into the classroom intended for teachers who have some familiarity with handhelds and want to use them more effectively with their students. It also features a list of some of the best
Take control of your own learning
Over the last year or so, I have been working on methods to differentiate professional development that I facilitate. Some things have worked better than others, and I’m refining my methods. A lot of the impetus is on the participants,
New free, sharable PD wiki on web 2.0
We had a great time at the Web 2.0 All-You-Can-Eat Buffet workshop in San Antonio. All of the resources we shared are available for anyone to access, share, and use in any setting in the Web 2.0 All-You-Can-Eat Buffet wiki.
Free, open online course – Mobile Multimedia
Here is another free, open, wiki-based, online professional development course: Mobile Multimedia: Podcasts, Mini-Movies, and More on Handhelds. This one covers finding, using, and creating multimedia resources for differentiating instruction with students. In case you missed it, another earlier free,
Mobile tech workshop
At NCETC yesterday, I facilitated the “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” workshop using a wiki. (This wiki is set up to be used to facilitate a F2F workshop, such as we did at NCETC, or to be used as
Differentiating Professional Development
In my on-going quest to differentiate instruction for teachers as a part of workshops I do, I’ve been experimenting with using blogs and wikis as PD tools. The latest installment in this is a hands on workshop on using mobile
Podcast on Ed Conferences
The newest episode of Karen’s Educational Mashups is now up. This show features podcasts from educational conferences. This is a great way to get the professional development benefits from conferences that you may not be able to attend in-person. Image
More thoughts on prof dev
Last week, I did some hands on workshops in new format — 2 hours! Normally, the shortest hands on session I’ll do is 3 hours, and I prefer 6 hours, especially for beginner podcasting sessions. But I thought I’d give