Director of Innovation and Strategy
On Tuesday, May 5 from 6:30 PM onwards, Wikispaces is hosting a wiki webinar, led by a high school teacher in Alabama on how she uses a wiki in her classroom.
To participate in this free event, sign up. If you secure approval from me, I will award re-certification credit if you would like to participate on your own time. Leave a comment on this blog post once you have secured your Elluminate ticket number from the link above.
Tonight I’m participating in an online conference workshop with Thomas Frey, author of The Future of Education. I found out about it here.
I’m interested in hearing the discussion. As it turns out a lot nowadays, there are events each night for educators to “join in” and either listen or participate in a lot of high-quality events. VSTE’s been doing SecondLife now for each Monday evening (there’s another one tonight, too), and Steve Hargadon has been doing a great job as well with these Elluminate sessions.
This year I’ve created a survey to give me feedback about our technology professional development classes we offer. Thus far, I’m seeing an interesting trend!
The question is, how do we provide this follow-up? I’d love for you to share with me your ideas, through the comments below. While the GHS/GMS campus has an ITRT to follow up (Mrs. Cantor), our elementary schools do not. Here are some ways I’ve attempted to provide follow-up, albeit not in a face-to-face solution:
Several educators have sent me e-mail about this, and of course, it’s been “a buzz” in the edu-blogosphere.
With tight budgets, consider spending some time between now and the end of October at the K-12 Online Conference, focused on pedagogy with technology.
“Conference in a website?” Sure! You can listen, read, and watch, and from what I’ve seen, it’s all high quality.