End of School Year Reflections
The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity. With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past year’s performance. Reflection provides valuable insight into your performance and allows you to create a schedule or road map for change. Not conducting deliberate reflection quickly leads to stagnant teaching with ineffective lessons and the teacher being little more than a highly paid baby-sitter. Effective reflection should...
Read MoreTwitter Tips for Teachers
As Twitter’s popularity has increased, teachers are frequently asking how to use Twitter. There are several good web tutorials that detail teacher’s experiences and if you are looking for projects these could be just right for you. That is beyond the scope of this post, perhaps in another article. Today, I will keep it simple and share five general tips that I have found very effective. Take time to fill out your profile and add a picture. People like to see who they are communicating with and knowing some information about you will help them identify with you. Share the items...
Read MoreThe Weekly Update: September 7 – September 13
Swine Flu Preperations Spur E-Learning Plans– Education Week Technology Workshops for Teachers Make Computer Connections– Ann Banks, Edutopia Florida Virtual School Doing More With Less– Florida AP Do I Trust the System Enough?– Tim Holt, Intended Consequences Hacking Higher Education– Michael Horn, Disrupting Class Clever Use of Twitter for Mobile Learning– Judy Brown,...
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