Month: July 2009

One Comment a Day Project

I read about this over at Kevin’s Meandering Mind. It’s a project designed to increase our access to different blogs, thereby mixing up our learning community. It was started by Andy over at iTeach. I’ve already tweeted my comment of the day :) Twitter / tracyrosen: Read a great post by @kell … via kwout One Comment a Day Project

Sunday morning quickie re: learning & assessment

Yup, we definitely need to continue re-thinking learning and assessment. Content is cheap and easy to access. We need to be learning and assessing context and skills – how we manipulate content to create new contexts. Top News – High-tech cheating? Students see it differently. Thanks to @scottmcleod for this link.

Leadership for any kind of change.

Please, Administrators of Canada (and probably the US and Australia, and South Korea, and New Zealand, and Morocco, and…), please stop jumping headfirst into change initiatives and expect your teachers to jump on with you as if they had been there from the start. Do you know that some of the least effective PD (wish Leadership for any kind of change.

Blooms Digital Taxonomy: My Thoughts

[cross-posted at 09/10 ~ Thinking Forward] Concept map for Bloom’s digital taxonomy. Developed by Andrew Churches of Kristin School in Albany Auckland, New Zealand. Click image for source. Hmmm… not too sure I like the title. I’d just call it revised again, or updated, or something along those lines. It is a taxonomy that is Blooms Digital Taxonomy: My Thoughts

How we move forward

I’ve had a few conversations with other teachers over the past 2 weeks or so about how quickly we transition into coming school years, even before the previous one is completely done. For me, I know the students who I will be teaching next year, for the most part – they went through an interview How we move forward