21st Century Workforce Readiness

Posted on February 8, 2009 by in 21st Century Teaching, Change, Community of Practice, Creativity & Innovation, Curriculum, High needs schools, innovation, Internet Safety, Leadership, Learning communities, Mentoring & Induction, Netgeners, New Tools, Novice teachers, Preservice teachers, Professional Development, service learning, Teacher Leadership, Teaching, Technology, Weblogs, Wikis

I had the opportunity recently to facilitate a group of business, education, political and community leaders in a discussion about developing a workforce ready group of graduates in the 21st Century. I was given the task of relaying the experience. I have decided to share with you to see if you agree or disagree with [...]

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Learning to Learn

Posted on August 9, 2008 by in 21st Century Teaching, Blogging, Change, Community of Practice, Connectivism, Creativity & Innovation, Curriculum, Edublogger, innovation, Learning, Learning communities, Netgeners, networking, New Tools, passion based learning, Professional Development, Social networking, teacher 2.0, Teacher Leadership, Teaching, Technology, Weblogs, Wikis

My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the [...]

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Powerful Learning Practice- Powerful Indeed

Posted on March 27, 2008 by in Community of Practice, innovation, Leadership, Learning, Learning communities, Netgeners, networking, New Tools, Novice teachers, Podcasting, Teaching, Visual literacy, Weblogs, Wikis

This post may be premature as I have only seen 2/3s of the PLP Independent Schools’ team presentations of their impact journey through PLP and team projects- but I must say, Will and I were more than impressed. It was more on the level of WOW. From extensive summer institutes with a Web 2.0 registration [...]

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Vicki Davis – Teacher Extraordinare

Posted on February 28, 2007 by in Novice teachers, Preservice teachers, Teaching, Wikis

Vicky Rocked the HouseVicki Davis graciously agreed to present during a Virtual Monday for my EDUC 330 course. She rocked the house. But did you really expect any less? Her presentation is on wikis. The archive can be viewed here. Her page on the class wiki can be viewed here and it has all her [...]

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EduWikipedia

Posted on June 16, 2006 by in 21st Century Teaching, New Tools, Web/Tech, Wikis

EduWikipedia I have had several conversations as of late with folks about the dis-connect of all the connected learning taking place in Education 2.0. Randy Fullington, one of the Alabama Best Practice Fellows, commented how it was confusing tryng to navigate through all archived in the virtual learning community with all the resources we had [...]

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End of Year One

Posted on May 19, 2006 by in 21st Century Teaching, Community of Practice, Consulting, Digital Literacy, Learning communities, New Tools, Weblogs, Wikis

Now that the last of the four 21st Century Learning sessions in Elluminate is over– it’s a good time to pause and reflect on where this work has taken the Alabama Best Practice Center’s 21st Century schools that are involved in the Microsoft 21st Century Partners’ project. Last night we had the final virtual 21st [...]

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Paper Chase- 21st Century Style

Posted on May 10, 2006 by in Wikis

Jon Messer and I were on Skype trying to figure out how we could make studying for our doctoral research exam less painful. Some would argue this is the toughest exam given in the School of Education at W&M. Solution– we created a wiki. We took the study guide for the course (objectives driven) and [...]

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