I had two interesting and challenging experiences the last couple of days. Experiences that cause me to consider my approach to supporting teachers and students. I met with a small group of high school teachers who wanted to learn more about Web 2.0 and what they might be able to use in their classrooms. I was fully prepared to spend the day showing demos, and...

Invariably when I introduce the concept of blogging to teachers, they want to resort to using it as a homework page. I understand that for many this is natural. After all, for many teachers, reflecting and sharing their work and ideas offline is not part of their practice, why would it be online? So while I’m careful to point out that the power of blogging lies...

I’ve gone to many conference, read books, articles and been involved with Professional Learning Communities in its official form for about 5 years. Assessment For Learning which is so tightly tied to effective PLC’s is also something I’m very comfortable with. Today as I listened to many qualified, knowledgeable and engaging speakers and...

I’ll take a crack at some live blogging. I think Doug Belshaw might be “irritated” but here we go: My thoughts are in UPPERCASE. I can see much of this might be incoherent…if there’s value or need for clarification or discussion, leave a comment. Conference page Doug Reeves: Four Questions What do students need to learn? How do we...

Trying out a new podcasting service called SolidCast as recommended by Tony Vincent.  I continue to look for the alternatives to show teachers. Each of these services offers it’s  own advantage and Tony highlights some of this in this chart. The thing is I have a feed already for my podcast.  As I configure it within my PodPress plugin, it asked for a...