Teacher Leadership is kind of an awesome thing to see. When teachers feel empowered enough to create the future of their school, the limits just seem to vanish. In teams that trust one another, learning happens and ideas are disseminated rapidly. When the doors are open for a reason, teachers …
There’s a part of me that wants to map everything. I want to be able to map ideas and I want to be able to map out direction. I want to be able to map out what the future looks like, displaying it for others to interact with. This part …
I have been doing school-based Google Apps for Education rollouts for a few years now, but I am now to do a…
Who is implementing Google Apps on a District Level in the coming school year or has done so recently that would…
I’ve been playing around with EdCanvas recently, and I thought I would share a collection of Open Spokes videos and…
What do we do with those who don’t speak the language? Whether that is English or the strange version of it that we use in Education that I would term “Eduspeak”, what do we do for those who need direct translation? What do we do about their specific needs, and …
To all of the new members of this community, welcome.
Here is to those who are willing to start without a scope and sequence. Here’s to those who want to figure out how it all works. To those that look at a new way of teaching and want to explore what is possible. To those that aren’t frightened by new …
Some of you may have used or heard of this tool previously, but I had my first encounter with it tonight: http://www.edcanvas.com/. EdCanvas is essentially a content curation tool that lets you pull in content from Youtube, EduCreations, Guroo, Websearch, Google Drive, Dropbox and files from your desktop and place …
One of the questions that I constantly ask myself is, “Where does the learning come from and where does it go?” What I mean by this is that learning experiences have to start from something: a piece of content, a new idea, or from some spark of curiosity within a …