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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Tags: 21st century education, collaboration, communication, ib, teaching
Posted in Dennis Harter | 37 Comments »
0Cross posted on Always Learning
In January, I shared a list of international school teachers (those teaching outside of their home country in a school catering to expatriate families) on Twitter (or blogging). In the last few months, even more teachers have added themselves to the Google Form, so I thought I would do a...
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Tags: Blog, communication, connect, contact, Education, expatriate, expats, google forms, International School, Kim Cofino, mscofino, networking, overseas, recruiting, teachers, teaching, Twitter
Posted in Kim Cofino | 3 Comments »
0Cross posted on Always Learning
A few weeks before our semester break, I wrote a post called International School Teachers Connect! in the hopes of discovering more international school teachers (those teaching outside of their home country in a school catering to expatriate families) on Twitter (or blogging).
Amazingly, within just a few days dozens of...
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Tags: Blog, communication, connect, contact, Education, expatriate, expats, google forms, International School, Kim Cofino, mscofino, networking, recruiting, teachers, Twitter
Posted in Kim Cofino | 4 Comments »
0I am constantly thinking of ways to try to get my teachers hooked into technology. Technology cannot be seen as just one more thing on their already busy plates.
Technology has to be seen as fun…
Technology should help teachers celebrate the successes of their students
Technology should help everyone is our communities stay...
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Tags: Blogging, communication
Posted in Amanda DeCardy | 7 Comments »
0As a technology person you don’t always get to decide where you are going to start with teachers. In fact, most of the time the teachers tell you where you are going to start.
Hence my focus on parent communication. Many teachers are looking at using blogs as a way to communicate with their parent...
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Tags: Blog, communication, Flickr, Google Cal, Google Doc, iPhoto, ISB, learn2cn, scribefire, smartones
Posted in Jeff Utecht | 2 Comments »
0Over the last couple of years I have helped numerous teachers set up blogs, wikis, and just plain old html pages to be used to communicate with parents.
As some point teachers always ask:
“So, I can just copy and paste my newsletter right here?”
You can, but you shouldn’t
Newsletters do not transfer well to the web....
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Tags: communication, Flickr, Google Analytics, newsletters, parents
Posted in Jeff Utecht | 3 Comments »