Organic Learning

My colleagues and I are learning together from the K12 Online Conference 07. Each week, for 5 weeks, we are meeting together to discuss the keynotes from each strand and also to view presentations together ala lan party style that Jeff Utecht started last year at the 06 conference. Our first meeting was November 7th. [...]

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This is a post that has been sitting in my drafts folder for a few months. I decided to post it even though it’s older, because it documents my thinking and reflection on sharing the learning about Web 2.0 tools. The online Read/Write Web course I mentioned has already finished, and I am hoping that [...]

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I am co-facilitating a salary point class on the K-12 Online Conference. (The other facilitator is Jose Rodriguez, in District 5. I really am enjoying working together with him on this as we expand the boundaries of professional development for our teachers.) This week, our focus was the Classroom 2.0 strand. Participants were to view [...]

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Today, the Instructional Technology Facilitators will be meeting formally with the Library Media Teachers from our district. I’m so pleased that this long overdue connection is finally being made. I think we need to work closely together to provide authentic learning opportunities for our students. We will be breaking out to meet with the LMT’s [...]

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A few weeks ago, someone mentioned that Animoto was used to make a preview of the teasers for the upcoming K-12 Online Conference. Since then, many edubloggers have been playing with it. I like the one David Warlick made for the Edubloggercon at NECC in Atlanta last summer.
Therefore, after my recent field trip with 4th [...]

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I’ve published the latest edition to my newsletter blog at http://ld6.blogspot.com It contains news, events, professional development opportunities, grant resources, and some recommended tools for educators. It’s most useful for teachers in LAUSD.
At the bottom of the post, I added some pictures and a short reflection from my summer experiences at NECC and at the [...]

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A few weeks ago, at Week 3 of LAUSD’s participation in the Teach the Teachers Collaborative, science teachers in Grades 4-8 reunited for a third year of collaborative learning on science, using technology as a tool. Their final product was a podcast episode to define their learning and/or provide a model for student [...]

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For the past week, I’ve been at the Teach the Teachers Collaborative in Ojai, CA working from very early in the morning to very late at night for the entire week in a beautiful setting. It was amazing! Science teachers in Grades 4-8 reunited for a third year to develop content in science, thinking about [...]

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At our Teach the Teachers Collaborative in Ojai, CA, I found out that Ian Jukes won’t be coming live tonight for our keynote address. He was delayed somewhere, so he will be coming to us virtually through Eluminate. I wanted to do a chat cast, but was asked not to because they want to make [...]

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I arrived without a hitch in the airport at Atlanta yesterday. From reading the posts in Hitchhikr, it seems many from around the country are beginning to arrive also. Mark Wagner wasn’t as lucky as me. His plane, coming from the John Wayne airport, had to be redirected to Los Angeles. At last post, he [...]

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