Engaging your students in creating standards-based projects is a great way to differentiate instruction. But what to do when your students want to rip their favorite CDs to include music in their project? If you are posting the work online,
New open educational resources project
Many of you know that I have gotten very involved in the area of open educational resources (OER) as a tool for differentiating instruction. If you aren’t familiar, OER are materials used for teaching and learning that are free from
ISTE is asking for input on next year’s keynote
ISTE 2010 (formerly NECC) is using a collaborative process to choose the keynote topic for next year’s conference. Imagine my delight at seeing Open Educational Resources (OER) near the top of the list! For those of you who don’t know
OER at NECC in DC
I am really excited about two hands-on sessions I’m facilitating at NECC in DC this year. They both concern open educational resources (OER), which are free and open digital content resources for educators. I think that OERs can be a
Stimulus funding for open curriculum
There is a flood of stimulus money coming into education this summer, including a substantial amount for ed tech. This is one-time funding that is to be spent quickly, but in a way that yields significant, long-term gains. I can
Tag sets for PD
I don’t know why I didn’t do this a long time ago, but I have just created annotated tag sets for two of my workshops (I guess I get the “bookmarking” part of social bookmarking, but sometimes forget about the
Developing educational materials as service learning
What a great idea! DeAnza College DeAnza College has a community service learning project that involves developing open educational resources. They suggest several projects that students can contribute to. What a phenomenal way to teach about open education, while also
A passion for content
Some of you may have noticed that through this summer, I’ve been writing a little less on this blog. The reason is that over the past year, I have gotten very involved in the area of Open Education (similar to
Throwing out the textbooks
I presented a keynote a couple weeks ago on Open Education. In talking about the reasons for open ed, I make the following points: We must differentiate instruction if we are going to engage and reach students who have increasingly
MAHETC rocks!
Wow — I had a great time at the Mid-Atlantic Handheld and Emerging Technology Conference again this year. It had all the elements of a great conference: small, high energy, interesting people, very hands on and interactive, and an intriguing