Posts Tagged ‘ collaboration ’

0The first time ’round, I wasn’t convinced. I tried Diigo more than whole-heartedly, for an entire month. I felt very much like it was good, but not really good enough — poor interface (not intuitive), clunky on the Flash / Javascript it relied on, a toolbar that got in my way, etc. I just...
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0Cross posted at Building Understanding. It began when Tara and I took on the task of articulating our ISB21 curriculum’s standards and benchmarks. I voiced it in a single tweet: Okay, some background… Our task is to ensure that the thorough standards from both ISTE and AASL were completely represented, while remaining true to one of...
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1 Currently my students’ main collaborative tools for research recording, idea creation, project development and reflection are Mindmeister, Google Docs and their blogs.  I use these tools for formative assessment while the student teams also use them to provide one another feedback. While these tools will continue to be a part of the learning...
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0Whether you work in a 1:1 laptop or computer lab centered school, teachers often use remote desktop software to access the desktops of their students’ computers to make sure they are on task. Teachers also use remote desktop in a more constructive manner to support the learning process. Let’s say time is tight and you...
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0 Cross posted on Always Learning One of my favorite projects of the year is beginning soon! The 1001 Flat World Tales project was initiated by Clay Burell in Korea over three years ago and has been going strong ever since. I first started working on this project at the middle school level, but this will be...
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0One of my goals in writing curriculum this semester is to get student input throughout the stages of the Understanding by Design process. Collaboration with teaching partners, learning specialists, the librarian, administrators and the instructional technologist has guided the curriculum review process at my last two schools. It is now time to add students...
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0As an ESL teacher I find myself constantly attempting to convince people that English Language Learners need the rich input of their peers so that they have a good model of ‘how English works’.  If we just segregate a group of beginners in a room together then the available models are not going to...
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0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaEczMry_4 You want to make them laugh while they give you their money. This is Andy Dorn’s approach. For IST’s latest Community and Service project, a Movember fundraiser for students in our sister school in Tibet, he created this promo video and shared it with our school community during both the elementary and secondary school...
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