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Aug
14
Are You a Catalyst for Change?
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, Social Responsibility, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring | 
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It is now a month after BLC08 and a recent comment has stirred up some thoughts that sent me back to a blog draft I wrote months ago. On Defragging my brain after BLC08, Angela Kerns mentioned that of my nine ‘take-aways’, #3 and #4 resonated with her:
3. Face-to-face meetings with your network are powerful… […]
Jul
22
defragging my brain after BLC08
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, networks, pairadimes, presentation, technology | 5 Comments
For a while now, I’ve been using my blog as a learning space to reflect on professional development… and after BLC08 there still seems to be a lot to talk and think about. But there is a problem: My brain is full.
Here are some brief ‘take-aways’ to jot down before things spill out and away.
1. […]
Jul
15
Alan November’s BLC08 pre-conference
Category: Learning Conversations, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, presentation, technology | 2 Comments
“Leading the Transition”
I’m in the session now… WOW… so I’ll be brief.
Alan asked me to start a Shared Google Document here it is: http://fon.gs/blc08precongdoc/
And here is the Ustream: http://fon.gs/blc08preconustream/
Here is what it looks like from my perspective: (I pulled out my tablet which is on my lap to do this post)
Special thanks to my new […]
May
18
Employability Skills 2000+ or 2000-?
Category: School2.0, connecting online, education, learning, pairadimes, reflection | Leave a Comment
Well, I’ve been at school for just over 14 hours and my mind is officially mush. I’m creating the paperwork needed for the new Grad Transisions Program so that I can give the Grade 11’s and 12’s in my school all the new documents for this year. I plan to be paperless for the Grade […]
May
2
How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci
Category: Learning Conversations, School2.0, Square Peg, books I like, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment
… continue teaching school like it is 1890.
“Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”
-LEONARDO DA VINCI
Here it is from Kris, a 15 year-old former student, “How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci“.
I think this post should be mandatory for every student teacher to read before they graduate.
I can hear the rebuttals, and […]
Apr
26
School 2.0h no, not yet…
Category: School2.0, education, learning, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | 1 Comment
I’ve been having this conversation in a few different places, and now I need to put my thoughts together. Here is a summary of some discussions and e-mail messages, a Wesley Fryer’s post “Advice for designing the school of the future” and my comment there, and my forum post in the School 2.0 social network […]
Apr
24
Start Your Own Blog
Category: Pro-D, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, learning, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | Leave a Comment
Here is the write-up for the 2 hour Professional Development seminar that I ran today for 9 dedicated teachers who showed up on a sunny Saturday, after a full day of Pro-D on Friday.
Start Your Own Blog
A practical session that will introduce you to blogging.
You will see how others use their blogs and you […]
Apr
12
Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Introduction
I have just spent my 2nd of 3 days with Bruce Wellman of Mira Via in a Pro-D session tittled Developing & Facilitating Collaborative Groups. The first session had a focus on facilitating groups and my personal learning focus centered around two main ideas:
1. Being deliberate about when we use Discussion and when we use […]
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