Technologically Literate

Ah, the reality of accelerated graduate school classes.  The cohort, which seems to change rapidly, moves from class to class in 8 week intervals.  I have to say I was pleased with that until Action Research.  I admit I wasn’t big on this class at the beginning, but after learning the process and participating in [...]

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Great meeting this afternoon yielding interesting action.  I successfully lobbied the MIS department to relax the internet filter for teacher accounts.  To be honest, it was an unexpected, but welcome move by the department.   
Here is how it went down.  After some back forth between the director, I, and a well intentioned technician, the conversation changed [...]

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We interviewed 100 (okay 81 so far) teachers, top 6 answers are on the board.  The question is, what would excite/encourage you to participate in PD more often?
Here are some interesting responses from real teachers across the US. 
1.  If we could select ourselves what areas we believe would help us in doing a better job on [...]

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So far an impressive 68 educators have participated in a short professional development survey I put together.  52 from PA (I did email all 200 of my co-workers) and a few from as far away as California and Washington.  Needless to say I am pleased and I do have ample data to make some broad conclusions [...]

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Wanna find out how big your network is?  Ask a question. 
Eliciting participation is the key to a having a reliable network.  Without participation you have a stagnate web space full of old pictures and fragmented comments.  My question is how do you gain prolonged interest and participation without constantly going to hot button issues?  I believe anyone [...]

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I am finding it may be difficult to put into words what exactly is needed in professional development.  Please take a moment to finish this 6 question, anonymous survey.  Thanks, Ken
The data will be used in a graduate research paper for Walden University.
Click Here to take survey

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I am in the midst of an ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT…
I would love to hear any thoughts and feelings you all have reguarding professional development and they way it is provided in your district.
Please provide me with name, experience (yrs), and location. 
Here is my problem statement:
Educators in the DuBois area school district need to provide a [...]

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Who should be involved in curriculum work? 
With the wide spread use of collaborative web application the question should be why isn’t everyone involved in school curriculum?  Using a wiki or Google Document a district has the power to offer business, industry, universities, and the community at large a chance to make their voice heard.  The [...]

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Calling all integrators, new and experienced.  I am opening up the Tech Integrators pageflake community to anyone in the field of ed tech.  I welcome your participation and only request an email address to get you involved.
You can PM me at kpruitt@dasd.k12.pa.us.
If you are creating your own, please forward your public “pagecast.”  It would be great to see [...]

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I want to thank Dave Cormier for a brillant idea.  Although he was rushed and met with one ill-prepared website, Dave’s presentation at the FOE (Future of Education)  online conference was excellent and could change the way we see the aggregator. 
First, I can’t say that I am a big fan of the online conference.  It’s the blur of a chat [...]

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