I have been involved in two major projects, one professional and one personal which have eaten all of my time over the past week. I am the adviser to our school’s yearbook, the Mirror. Our final deadline to get this year’s edition to the plant in order to guarantee our spring delivery is today, February [...]
Entries from February 28, 2007
I haven’t been neglecting my blogging…
February 28, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning, yearbook
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Professional Learning Tuesday
February 21, 2007 · 3 Comments · teaching and learning, yearbook
I have settled into a routine over the past six to seven weeks, kind of a personal Professional Learning Tuesday, where I spend a significant amount of listening time over at EdTechTalk.com. I have a hectic morning with scheduled meetings and classes. I then try to settle in to listen to Alex Ragone (Learning Blog) [...]
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Creating Global Connections – A Workshop for North Shore’s Lower School Teachers
February 18, 2007 · 6 Comments · teaching and learning
On Friday, February 16th, I was given the opportunity to present to our Lower School teachers. While brainstorming with our Lower School head, Pam Whalley, it was determined that I should focus this session on how to create Global Connections. If I may say, it was a wonderful presentation full of wonderful ideas which has [...]
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Advisor’s Note – Trying to Define What Our School Community Means?
February 17, 2007 · No Comments · yearbook
One of the responsibilities, in addition to being the Director of Academic Technology, is being the lead advisor on our school’s yearbook, the Mirror. I love working with students to document and develop a journalistic approach to document and tell the story of the year’s events. Creating this “old fashioned” print record is an interesting [...]
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Where are the Clearinghouses to Allow Teachers and Classrooms to Connect with One Another?
February 11, 2007 · 3 Comments · teaching and learning
Richard Kassissieh (kassblog.com ) shared and interesting post about Global Ed and Technology. I agree with his assertions that the use of lower quality connections as being as valuable as higher tech solutions. One reason is that it is more easily accessible in other parts of the world. You are more likely to find someone [...]
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