As I have already shared, there are many amazing educators whom I have learned a great deal with and from during the past 8 months. I have mentioned some influential-to-me bloggers here and here. I would like to continue by including some influential-to-me people I follow on Twitter. In an effort to acknowledge more people,Continue reading “Top 10 in 10: Celebrating my 1ooth Blog Post 6/10 – Top Tweeters”
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Top 10 in 10 Series: Celebrating my 100th Blog Post 4/10
While I have been inspired by many school administrators and other district personnel, I have also been inspired by many classroom teachers. I would consider these educators to be leaders in education as well. 10 Most influential Teacher Bloggers Joe Bower – Joe has opinions and isn’t shy to share them with the world. I findContinue reading “Top 10 in 10 Series: Celebrating my 100th Blog Post 4/10”
App-Learning Curve
Having iPads at my school and having to manage them and their apps has proven to be an interesting task. If you know me at all, you would know that when I am involved in a project I usually jump in with both feet. That’s what I’ve done with the iPads. Knowing that we wantedContinue reading “App-Learning Curve”
Powerful Collaboration
A couple Monday’s ago, we provided one of our Grade 1 teachers with the opportunity to visit another Grade 1 teacher in our school district. She was going to observe the teacher doing morning routines, Guided Reading, calendar, math and everything else that happens before lunch. As a result, my principal and I had theContinue reading “Powerful Collaboration”
Posterous!
Have you ever heard of Posterous? Until recently, I had not heard of Posterous. Heidi Hass Gable (@HHG) introduced it briefly to my Study Group before Christmas. As a result, we decided to focus on Posterous at our Study Group meeting recently. I must say, I am so happy that Heidi introduced this tool toContinue reading “Posterous!”
The Primary Pad Buzz
After hearing about one of our teacher’s experience and witnessing the excitement of the students, I knew I wanted to give PrimaryPad a try with my own classes. It went really well, for the most part. The second class I tried it with went much better than the first class though. I think that myContinue reading “The Primary Pad Buzz”
A Lesson in Persistence and Collaboration
One of our Grade 5 teachers tried something new a couple of weeks ago. It turned out fabulous, but not without a few hiccups. Her class is studying the environment, so she wanted to have her class collaboratively answer a debatable question regarding farming salmon. With the help of our Teacher-Librarian, she and another GradeContinue reading “A Lesson in Persistence and Collaboration”
We Did It!
Yesterday was the day that I committed to myself and, more importantly, to my students that we were going to have our Health & Career Education class in the computer lab. I’d been planning this since the summer, but it just hadn’t happened yet. The students were ready, but I wasn’t quite ready, but IContinue reading “We Did It!”
Life Long Learners
The district in which I work is an amazing district, full of truly dedicated educators and people who really care about kids. They want to make a difference. And they do. Each and every day. Last week, I blogged about the wonderful initiatives being provided to the administrators in our district: study groups, independent studies,Continue reading “Life Long Learners”
Leading the Millennials
As part of my professional growth I am involved with a study group of administrators. We are focusing our growth in the area of technology and 21st Century learning and education. We have chosen to read Leading 21st Century Schools:Harnessing Technology for Engagement and Achievement as our first book on which to focus our learning. IContinue reading “Leading the Millennials”
It's All About Learning 