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Personal Branding - Knowing Who Your Are

At today’s ADE Session in Singapore we spent the day talking about the importance of personal branding.  We are fortunate to have Max Judd here who facilitated the personal branding session.  Max is the senior manager of Education Advocacy Programs at Apple and is responsible for the Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program.  He talked about [...]

Rolling Out a 1:1 Program

This will be the first of what I hope is a few posts just so that I can reflect on the process of rolling out a 1:1 Program at my school next year.  I am so excitied about this and really wnt it to go well. We’ve had many, many meetings with many, many stakeholders.  Last [...]

School YouTube Channel!

Every school should have a YouTube channel, yes?  Why?

Kids love to see themselves on YouTube
Parents love to share the videos of their kids with family
Potential students can view the videos to see what life is like at the school
Potential teachers can view the videos to see what life is like at the school

In a school my [...]

Shanghai k12 Online LAN Party!

The Shanghai k12 LAN Party kicked off today with a group of 12+ educators who met at my house this evening for the first of a four part series centered around the free k12 Online Conference.  This is the third year that we’re hosting this professional development event and I am still inspired by the mere [...]

Wordle of Words – What Do You Blog About?

All this week we have been finishing up getting our middle school students on blogs. I love blogging with kids… they learn so fast and are like sponges when it comes to technology. I’m a technology teacher and what takes me 15 minutes to figure out will take them less that 5. It’s [...]

Bringing the Community Together with Moodle

When I was a math teacher, one of my favorite assignments at the beginning of the year was called A Million Words or Less.  I’m pretty sure that I got the idea from this article on Education World and I’m sure that many of you out there do something similar.  I love this assignment so much [...]

Keeping Parents in the Loop

I am so impressed with the teachers at my school this year.  Nearly 75% have set up a blog as a way to communicate with their parents and as a way to interact with their students.  We had some teacher bloggers last year, but very few parents actually tuned in to what people were writing about.  [...]