It wasn’t an easy sale. Actually there was a year’s worth of insistence. I had joined the team having blogged with students in my classroom for a number of years in various grades within the elementary system. The role, having just been changed from panel-centric to support for K-12, brought with it some clear trepidation. …
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Systemic Change vs Pockets of Excellence vs The Rogue
The Preface Let me start this by saying that when I was in the classroom, I was probably what I will define below as a rogue. I do not write this as a statement against the rogue teacher (often they push us in brave directions); only to say that a system should not measure itself …
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Badges? We might need some stinkin’ Badges
It’s odd to think that the session that struck me most deeply at ISTE12 is the one I haven’t blogged about yet. I suppose that’s the thing about new learning. Everything else I saw at ISTE can probably be categorized into my zone of proximal development. I saw some new things, but nothing I hadn’t …
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Pinterest WordPress Theme – Your personal standalone pinboard.
I’m exploring the idea of creating a Commons “Pinterest” photo blog. Using the “Press This” bookmarklet tool which you can drag onto your Bookmarks bar in your favorite browser by accessing it in your Dashboard under Tools, you can quickly add a URL into a blog post. Clicking the Add button on the top …
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Adding Twitter
Early on in the process of creating the Commons, I secured the Twitter account @HWDSBCommons to ensure that I owned the digital footprint for this tool (if you don’t take ownership of your name on the net, someone else will!) I didn’t think much of the twitter account until the Commons when down one weekend …