VanishingPoint

Ok, I am really think that I should be asking what did you learn this week… but my brain is having time issues right now.  Let me give you a bit of background.  About 3 months ago, a colleague of my and I decided to offer a summer in-district course on Web 2.0… after [...]

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http://allthingsliteracy.com 
Live Blogged: Please pardon the incomplete thoughts, omissions, and or errors.
Kelly Doubek  and Anna Beard
How to evaluate software or tools by breaking them down to along literacy goals.
Reading to learn: Reading and writing across content area
Project CRISS, PowerUP, etc
What are your District’s current reading Initiatives? How is technology supporting reading initiatives?

Data Tools
Online Assessments
Student Practice and [...]

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Well, here I am at a crossroads. While on one hand I want to start podcasting, on the other I would like for my efforts to have some semblance of quality… I think that I achieve a podcast here. I apologize in advance for the audio quality as I am providing this caveat: [...]

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While I was off on a different tangent a few weeks back, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking with David Jakes about a couple of different subjects, but one thing that he said that really resonated with me was that teachers needed time to internalize technology before they begin [...]

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I hope that everyone had a great day today.  It was nice to be back in the hunt for knowledge at the ICE Conference again.  For me today was an Administrator Academy on Collaboration and Networking Resources.  Overall, the session was not bad but it had great potential to move the conversations well beyond what [...]

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I just saw this brief but right on target article on the future of technology and teaching in the classroom.   Overall, the focus was that proponents of education technoogy really need to stop touting technology and begin the discussion and focus onto teaching and learning.  Isn’t that what we do?  or should be doing?  I read this article [...]

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