Organic Learning

Many administrators and teachers want to know about grants and funding opportunities. It seems there isn’t enough funding to buy the technology that schools need to use to address 21st century literacy, so getting some grants would be a benefit.
Here are some resources on grants that I’ve gathered in Delicious, a social bookmarking tool that [...]

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I just got back from my second week at the Teach the Teachers Collaborative in Ojai, California. As I finally get a chance for quiet time and reflection, I can’t help but pause in amazement at all we did these past few weeks. I’ve been so in the moment, that trying to post any of [...]

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Today, I attended NECC virtually. I really wanted to be there, but I was glad to be able to connect from home.
Thanks to Alice Mercer’s CoveritLive , Bud Hunt’s Chatterous and Mogulus, Kelly Dumont and Vicki Davis, and Scott Merrick’s Ustream, Steve Dembo’s EduStream, I was able to listen in and interact with some of [...]

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I got an email today announcing that there is a new Chief Academic Officer in our district. Her name is Dr. Judith Elliott, former Assistant Superintendent for School Support Services in the Long Beach Unified School District and former Chief of Teaching and Learning (what a great title) for the Portland Public Schools.
What [...]

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Cross-posted at my Newsletter blog at http://ld6.blogspot.com
Today is National Teacher’s Day. Here’s the good news from straight from Google via Mike Lawrence at CUE:
 

Google Teacher Academy – at the Googleplex
Mountain View, CA
June 25, 2008
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Applications Due: May 28, 2008
http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html
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Since today is National Teacher Day, we thought it would be the perfect day to announce that [...]

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Last week at InfoTech, LAUSD’s student led technology conference, I offered a workshop on Web 2.0 tools in the classroom to a roaring crowd of 6 people. (I think we either need to only offer student presentations, or find a way to free up teachers so they can attend the workshops offered.)
I focused on [...]

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A few years ago, I agreed to write an online course about email. It was based on our previous email system, EPals. Even at the time I wrote it, I threw in a few articles written about the Pew Internet study about how email was considered by teenagers as something to be used with old [...]

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As I attempt to organize my thoughts for a workshop for my colleagues in the instructional staff at my district office on graphic organizers, I realize I need to clarify my thinking about graphic organizers. Maybe writing a blog post will help.
Our district focus was to investigate tools that help students organize their thinking to [...]

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There’s a whole world of learning out there that lately I haven’t had much time to tap into. I’ve been “teaching” classes lately -after work, and there are only so many hours in the day. Some of those hours need to be spent with the family. It is exciting to share my learning with others [...]

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My colleagues and I met yesterday to explore the Obstacles to Opportunities strand of the K-12 Online Conference 2007.
For homework, we were to have watched the Keynote presentation by Brian Crosby. Since only one had seen the presentation (done their homework), I decided to play it for about 30 minutes. I think that keynote is [...]

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