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Motivation and change, values and passion: Making the connections

[cross-posted at LeaderTalk] I will be returning to the classroom at the end of August after a year as a special education consultant and professional development facilitator. I decided to return for a variety of reasons, the most important being that I miss the energy I pick up from daily contact with students and the Motivation and change, values and passion: Making the connections

Preparing the waters for change.

Image: photo of the St Lawrence River taken by me, available on flickr. mrsdurff introduced me to Class 2.0 in a recent comment on Understanding the Machine. I love the idea behind this site, and behind different workshops that places like LEARN in Quebec offer teachers. How do we negotiate the space between resources on Preparing the waters for change.

Conversations in edublogging

Image: Conversation by thehighschoolchick made available on flickr with a creative commons license. Lately I have been voraciously reading and learning from different edubloggers. I am seeing my passion for authentic learning for our kids (and myself!) reflected in their posts. Here are just a few of the posts that have turned my crank in Conversations in edublogging

Getting to know us bloggers :)

Kevin has ‘tagged’ me in this blogger ice breaker ;) I like the idea of getting to know the people in my blogger community as people and not just bloggers. Copied straight from Kevin who, in turn, blatantly and defiantly ‘ripped’ straight from Graham’s post: Kevin has tagged me so here goes. Cut and paste Getting to know us bloggers :)

Up for a challenge, anyone?