Arnie and Roxanne both raised some important points in their comments on my post on Curriculum Consultants earlier this week. How do you establish relationships with curriculum consultants? So I thought it might be helpful for me to share how I’ve worked with some of our consultants. Peeking in. Often our consultants stop by the [...]
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Today I spent the day working with our social studies consultant on various projects. Among other things, we discussed my plans for an upcoming ASK connecting to a Canadian author for 6th grade students studying Canada. The Michigan social studies curriculum is currently under revision, and there is potential that the placement of Canada studies [...]
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Just in time for your summer workshops is a new version of the Project Templates Booklet that many of you have been using. (It’s linked on the TWICE projects page and on our BCISD DL projects page.) New Project Templates I’m really excited about this new version. It is twice as long (but still only [...]
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A little feedback for the content providers out there reading this blog. We’ve been cleaning up from the programs we did this year and two content providers sent us boxes this year that had to be sent back. What a pain! Some of my schools didn’t have the funds to send it back so they [...]
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Check out this little tool that Arnie set up for Distancelearningville. Attendr is a tool to see who you know and who you want to meet. Try it out – just create an account and put in your location, and click on the buttons next to names to list who you know and who you [...]
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Wow! I love collaboration and learning from videoconferencing colleagues. I’ve been pondering Roxanne’s comments about learning, then teaching, then leading. She first mentioned this to me as we were working on setting up Google Docs for Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with VC this summer (affectionately termed Jazz). Now she’s taken the time to write up [...]
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We’re finishing up the school year with several classes connecting to the New York Hall of Science for a program called Fun with Bubbles. The program starts with the Explainer setting the students at ease by asking them where they are and what they know about bubbles already. Students see and think about examples of [...]
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Final Report Numbers Last week I posted our final report online and have been mulling over the implications since. Largely due to the RUS grant, our districts averaged a 400% increase in usage this year. We almost doubled our total usage across the whole service area for the second year in a row. This year [...]
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Here’s a collection of notes & thoughts…. I’m about halfway through listening to the whole interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D Conference last week. It’s great evening entertainment for those interested in technology. I caught a reference by Bill Gates to videoconferencing and looked it up. Microsoft is working on a [...]
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