Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Director's Blog for Jan. 20, 2010
21st Century Learners and Leaders:
January 14-15, 2010 was an outstanding two days in Raleigh, NC and on the web at our mid-year retreat for the North Carolina Virtual Public School and Learn and Earn Online. Visit the retreat site here.
The overall themes were "Educating the Social and Mobile Generation" across "Blended Learning Horizons" not just for NCVPS and LEO, but for North Carolina school districts and organizations. In addition to unveiling NCVPS Class, Modular, Mobile, and Blended- we also created a companion document in PDF form that you can use for your districts here at www.thevlc.org.
The contents of "Educating the Social and Mobile Generation" includes:
1. A welcome from the Executive Director
2. Research links on e-learning and blended learning
3. Remarks from Governor Perdue, Lt. Governor Dalton, and Students
4. Video and web links for North Carolina's e-learning portal and NCVPS/LEO
5. Maps of North Carolina district participation and more.....
Finally, the Google Site is an open source site for our retreat. After reading the World is Open by Curtis Bonk http://worldisopen.com/, I became more and more convinced that this type of open learning and training is a key issue for all educators to understand, prepare for, support, and secure. Many tools out there already exist for us to collaborate, communicate, and educate in a safe and open way for learners. The next step is for district and school leadership to really explore the why, what, and how behind blended learning for North Carolina's future.
As you peruse the retreat site, our retreat "files for our fans" link is still under construction with all of the content gathered at the retreat, but I would encourage you to go here to peruse the many ideas and concepts that emerged from the retreat and to review who attended to see the broad cross section of representation for North Carolina. Here's wishing you a great week with the virtual advantage of www.ncvps.org and www.nclearnandearn.gov.
Bryan
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Director's Blog for January 4, 2010
21st Century Leaders and Learners:The e-letter this week is a tribute to my former mentor in Iredell-Statesville Susan Allred. During her tenure in education, Susan not only served at all levels of K-12 public education, but she was also a four time National Baldrige Examiner and taught me, along with Dr. Terry Holiday, everything I know about systems improvement. In Susan's retirement, she has continued to consult on how to improve processes for teaching and learning. She has also been a key part of our k-8 elementary strategic plan at http://www.ncvps.org/ .
When she sent me this on facebook this week, I had to share.
Are Wii Fit?
This is a blog more than a FB post. It's an educational analogy, I think. Hope you enjoy it. Sorry Bryan, but you friended me! For Christmas niece Emily gave me a Wii Fit Plus software for my Wii. It was a good choice. I've had the Wii for about two years. The first year I was faithful with using it daily with a few exceptions. Then last March I started walking every day instead. Neither of these processes made me lose weight, but I certainly felt better - breathing especially.
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