Providing professional development (PD) is one of the critical actions needed in order to transform our schools toward engaging, relevant, and authentic 21st century learning environments. Faculty and staff at all levels of schools need to provide, encourage, and attend PD opportunities of different types whenever they arise and fit their schedule. At the same [...]

I often struggle with developing meaningful projects that grade one students can do independently. Often times it is a challenge for these young students to develop a deep understanding of the technology concepts involved. My current integrated project overcomes these barriers and introduces them to the technology design cycle as well! Grade 1 students at [...]

Cross posted on Always Learning Back in November and December I worked with a small group of grade 5 students on the Flat Classroom Project. Our group acted as a Sounding Board for the project participants, and after finishing their part of the process, were very interested in actually speaking to some of the students [...]

This is cross-posted on Some Tech Sense. I’ve always loved Wordle and I can’t help but love this too! It’s actually very timely as I prepare for my presentation to my staff about Developing a Personal Learning Network. Thanks to Langwitches for the connection to TwitterSheep! Here is my word cloud created from the bios [...]