Ok, this post isn’t tooooo closely tied to VC, but I want to keep these tweets somewhere close by! Thanks @cheryltice and @lcolwill for helping me find these! They are all related to the idea that if you don’t use or experience knowledge, you haven’t really learned. @pdmselfdefense Being able to apply past experience to [...]
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Last fall I attended an evening concert/lecture with Jazz Impact at the Banff Centre. I reflected then on the connections between jazz music and the 123 VC: Jazzing Up Your Curriculum with Videoconferencing. Today, as part of my Leadership PhD program, I’m attending an all day workshop with Jazz Impact. The lessons are still striking [...]
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This post is part of a series of posts with some of the results from a survey of my top VC-using teachers. Read more about it in the first post of this series. Remember, they are using videoconferencing to support curriculum instruction (not full length courses). The question featured in this post is the last [...]
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This post is part of a series of posts with some of the results from a survey of my top VC-using teachers. Read more about it in the first post of this series. Remember, they are using videoconferencing to support curriculum instruction (not full length courses). The question featured in this post is the following: [...]
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This post is part of a series of posts with some of the results from a survey of my top VC-using teachers. Read more about it in the first post of this series. Remember, they are using videoconferencing to support curriculum instruction (not full length courses). The question featured in this post is the following: [...]
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This post is part of a series of posts with some of the results from a survey of my top VC-using teachers. Read more about it in the first post of this series. Remember, they are using videoconferencing to support curriculum instruction (not full length courses). The question featured in this post is the following: [...]
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This post is part of a series of posts with some of the results from a survey of my top VC-using teachers. Read more about it in the first post of this series. Remember, they are using videoconferencing to support curriculum instruction (not full length courses). The question featured in this post is the following: [...]
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After the discussions that arose from my posts last week about mentoring, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the ways that I work with the tech coordinators in our districts. A Little History First, a little history. I’m at heart and by training a teacher, and the technology scared me at [...]
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This is my first year participating in Leadership Day. The idea is to share “whatever you like related to effective school technology leadership: successes, challenges, reflections, needs, wants, etc.” So I thought it might be helpful to share what principals in my service area do to support curriculum videoconferencing. I don’t think any of them [...]
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This post is part of a series examining research and theory on mentoring and coaching from the perspective of mentoring school videoconference coordinators. Article Reference Orland-Barak, L. (2005). Lost in translation: Mentors learning to participate in competing discourses of practice. Journal of Teacher Education, 56(4), 355-366. Summary This article focuses on the “competing discourses of [...]
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