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I recently started playing with two newish social media applications, Foursquare and Google Buzz . Foursquare is an iphone app where you "check in" to different places when you visit them. If you are the first to check in, or you check in the greatest Read More...
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The Educon 2.2 conference is only 6 days away. Educon is one of my favorite conferences of the year. It brings together the top thinkers in education and provides an environment perfect for learning from others. This will be my third Educon and knowing Read More...
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My brother has recently started blogging and asked me for some tips. I thought I would share them here. I started blogging in 2006 and it has been some of the best professional development for me that I have ever done. Blogging forces me to think, reflect Read More...
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Second semester I will be teaching a new high school course for the first time titled "Digital Journalism." It is an English elective for juniors and seniors inspired by and based on Howard Rheingold's Stanford course of the same title . I have been working Read More...
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First of all, thanks to everyone who voted for me in the Edublog Awards. I didn't win, but a lot of really great bloggers did. You can see all the winners here . On Friday last week I got up in front of my entire school community, 440 teen age boys and Read More...
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Voting ends tomorrow (Wednesday, Dec 16th at USA EST 11.59 PM) (for my 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers post) Even if you don't feel like voting, you should check out all of the nominated blogs . It is a great way to find inspirational educators! Read More...
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I have been thinking about effective means of professional development for teachers for a long time. I started my edtech career as a Professional development specialist at Tom Snyder Productions . They still use my picture on their website. Not to bite Read More...
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NEIT2009 Days 2 and 3 At the closing keynote, Michael Wesch (@ mwesch ) posed this essential question: "How can we create students who can create meaningful connections?" At this conference I made dozens of meaningful connections. I learned about school Read More...
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I could hear my heart beating in my chest as I drove up to the Mohonk Mountain House , the site of the NEIT (New York State Association of Independent Schools (N) Education (E) Information (I) Technology (T) conference . I was excited, but also nervous Read More...
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Recently Twitter introduced the ability to create and subscribe to lists. I've been playing around with this new feature and I think it has a lot of potential. I created this screencast to show a few of the things I've learned. In addition to my screencast, Read More...
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I just finished writing this article for the Belmont Hill Alumni magazine. What I've been up to for the last year and a bit... "Respecting tradition yet alive to innovation..." These words from the Belmont Hill mission statement illustrate the unique Read More...
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I've been reading and talking about "21st Century Schools" lately and just remembered this post I wrote on a wiki a while ago. It is based on Ted Sizer's Common Principles for the Coalition of Essential Schools . I thought it was worth reviving here. Read More...
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Change is hard. Change is painful. Change is frustrating. Change takes time. Blah Blah Blah... You have heard it all before. We humans get attached to things. We don't like to let go. In many ways this serves us well, especially when we are married with Read More...
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Back in the olden days (2006 ;-) when I first started using Twitter, we didn't have the Retweet . If I liked something someone said or shared on Twitter, I would pass it along with a comment like "Check out @xxx's great post" or Thanks @xxx for sharing... Read More...
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I have been working with teachers to learn to integrate technology into their teaching for almost ten years. Here are a few of the things I have learned - in no particular order (number 10 is probably the most important). Please share your thoughts and Read More...
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