Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Next Up--NAIS Feb 24-25

I'll be attending the NAIS Conference in San Francisco later this month. I'm presenting during the very first session on Thursday the 24th, but otherwise I'll be blogging away at the sessions I attend. First up will be Arianna Huffington. I haven't picked out the other sessions yet, but I'll get the posts set up by February 22nd.

Cheers!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Universal Design for Learning

With Lisa Parisi, Karen Janowski, Paul Bogush, Christine Southard

I love listening to these guys on EdTechTalk! Very excited for this session.

Wikis for a Dynamic Curriculum

Wikis for a Dynamic Curriculum

Deon Metelski
Kent Place School

The session will use the Tuning Protocol to view and assess a part of the wiki curriculum. Attendees will be able to add to the discussion page of the wiki their "warm" and "cool" feedback.


Re-thinking Teacher Education

With Alec Couros and Dean Shareski

(Re)Imagining Social Media & Technology in Teacher Education

Join Dean Shareski and Alec Couros to discuss innovations in teacher education for developing technical skills and new literacies in preservice teachers. We'd like to share our experiences, but more importantly, we'd like to lead a conversation discussing the role of teacher education programs for developing innovative teachers.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Lucy Gray: Using tech to foster exploration and reflection

Using technology to foster exploration and reflection in science.

Lucy Gray, Debbie Leslie, and Jeanne Century

Model for online particpatory leanring online

At 12:30pm. I think this might be incredibly useful as our students travel. . .

Many to Many

Many to Many-- How Entire School Communities Can Collaborate

When:
Session One: Saturday 10:00am–11:30am
Who:
Jim Heynderickx
Affiliation: Director of Technology, American School in London
Conversational Focus/Audience:
All School Levels
Conversation Description:

Clay Shirky has published and presented on several interesting concepts about how the Internet can enable "many to many" communications and support. He has also noted that technology tools become socially interesting when they become technologically boring. The main idea of this conversation is to discover if his ideas are becoming apparent in our schools, and specific ways that we could foster their growth. In this context, we will also review the problems with type of change, and how some long-term beliefs and structures may need to be reviewed.

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