Browsing all posts in October, 2009.

Free Webinar on Optimizing Stimulus Grants

ISTE’s director of government affairs, Hilary Goldmann, presented a national level update on the U.S. education stimulus programs in a webinar hosted September 30 by Scholastic Professional Media.  Titled New Approaches to Optimizing ARRA, the webinar also included a report from a Florida junior high on its stimulus request.  The webinar is available [...]

Innovative Ideas for Educating English Language Learners (Part 1)

I was a bit intimated about providing a keynote presentation at the NYS Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference this month because of my own rather unpleasant memories of being made fun of for my “white” accent in high school, and later in college, Spanish classes. I always envied those [...]

How Rubrics Should Drive What We Teach

Over the last couple weeks I’ve been working with one of the Phys Ed teachers at our school, and the two of us have been working on strategies to integrate inquiry-based practices and technology (two of the core goals of our school) into her Phys Ed program.
We’ve been tweaking a great football unit she designed [...]

The Fear of Change – it’s Nothing New

I recently read an interview with Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil. His new book takes a look at people’s fear of computers having a negative impact on various aspects of human interaction, including common complaints that instant messaging (IM) is ruining the English language and that Facebook is causing us to be anti-social. [...]

ISTE 2010 Conference Proposals Due October 7!

Do you have a proposal for ISTE10? If so, make sure to submit it by October 7th at midnight!
Hundreds of educators will be presenting their ed tech strategies and best practices in Denver for the ISTE 2010 conference in June. If you want to be one of them, visit the Call for [...]

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