Today’s post about better videoconference projects has absolutely nothing to do with networks or hardware. Collaboration skills can definitely be learned and developed. Here are seven ways to become a better collaborative partner for projects for your teachers. Read Your Email And respond to your email in a timely manner. Just do it. So many [...]
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Sadly, I’ve decided to purge my “other VC blogs” list of any blog that hasn’t had a post in over a year. But I want to keep the archive in case I need to find them again. So here are the ones that I purged: ACELINK Blankenblogger Meet in School (UK) Polycom PGAP VC Grand [...]
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There are other ways that I’m planning to virtually follow what’s going on at NECC this year. Twitter I set up two searches in TweetDeck for following NECC. One search for NECC related things: “NECC OR NECC09 OR NECC2009″ Another for the SIGIVC hashtag: NECCIVC Also you may want to follow these people that I [...]
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Recently I’ve been learning about situated learning. Here are some thoughts connecting situated learning to Jazz. Lave and Wenger (1991) in their book Situated Learning describe learning within a situation, within a community, as situated learning. A key component of situated learning is “legitimate peripheral participation”, which means that newcomers to a world of knowledge [...]
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If any of you are interested, I’ve posted a few pictures from my Hawaii vacation on my personal website.
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Guest Blogged by Dennis Lundgren, Berrien RESA Director of Instructional Technology On Monday, May 11, 2009 Berrien RESA Superintendent Jeff Siegel hosted a fabulous celebration of the completion of our $350,000 RUS grant (USDA Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant). We honored the schools, Principals, Tech Directors and building videoconferencing coordinators with a [...]
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Time for a little diversion from my usual topic of videoconferencing. I thought you might be interested in checking out some pictures of our gingerbread project this year. What a lot of fun we had! A house, a church, and a dog house! Hope you had a wonderful break too…. And happy new year!
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Ok, I’m seriously 20 days late in finding this nifty activity, but I’m working on catching up! Steve Dembo over at Teach42 is running a 30 Days to Being a Better Blogger series and it started on November 1, 2008. So far this evening I’ve worked on my about page, my sidebar, and my blogroll, [...]
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Today we have our first content provider showcase in a new format! My schools are so tired of coming here for workshops and last year they were begging for content provider showcases that they could attend at their school or district. So we have 4 sites connected, with 1-3 teachers at each site. I’m flipping [...]
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What a thrilling experience this morning to listen to Carol Daunt Skyring’s keynote! It was a presentation that couldn’t be blogged very well – you had to be here! Carol used a lot of amazing video clips, visuals, and even silent reading to get across her points. Her videos are on her blog (or she [...]
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