Director's Blog: Stalker Apps or Immersive Intelligence?

I will probably lose my digerati card for this, but I’m embarrassed to say that I had not spent a lot of time with Foursquare until very recently. Immersed into trying to figure it all out and make connections to education, I also had the pleasure this past week of reading Rich Karlgaard’s, Ten Rules of A Cheap Revolution as well as hearing Chris Dede speak about his Virtual Assesment Project.

So as is the case with many of my blogs, I was looking for a common thread when I dropped my son Ben off for his first week at his immersion preschool, http://www.spanishforfun.com/. As it turns out, his preschool allows webcam access for parents at anytime. In addition, they blog about classroom events and experiences, and they have an RSS subscription feed for updates and tips.

Continue reading at edReformer!

LOCK Session - Oct. 19: Curriculum and Instruction Presentation

Dr. Tracy Weeks leads the Curriculum and Instruction Presentation at the Oct. 19 LOCK session.

Part 1

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Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know

Are your students using multi media for projects and assignments? You'll want to see this!

From the K12 Online Conference 2010

For more on Creative Commons, follow this link.

Primary Digital Portfolios

Teaser for Primary Digital Portfolios at the K12 Online Conference 2010. Is your district ready for this? Are your teachers ready for this?

K12 Online 2010 Conference

Here is Dean Shareski keynote which looks at the new obligation of sharing for educators. With stories from the a variety of sources, the fact that we now have the ability to teach and share beyond our classrooms is moving from “nice to do” to “necessary to do”.

Leave a comment if you agree or disagree.

The 2010 K-12 Online Conference starts on Monday, October 11th 40 presentations by educators and students from around the world will be posted both to the conference blog and the conference Ning over the next two week. Come here to The VLC for updates, too!

Director's Blog: Paging Lois and Clark

The furor over the move Waiting for "Superman" has me thinking this week about Lois Lane and Clark Kent. As you are aware by now, the movie’s “Superman” title stems from an homage to an anecdote told by Geoffrey Canada, the charismatic leader of New York’s celebrated Harlem Children’s Zone charter school program. As a poor but ambitious kid growing up in the crime-ridden South Bronx, Canada liked to fantasize that Superman would save him; ultimately, of course, he had to save himself.

Yet, I submit that it is the Clark Kent assistant principal or the early adopter Lois Lane teacher that can shake up our kids daily planet right now. If you are tired of waiting on superman, keep reading about the power of Lois and Clark to transform your school site.