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Middle School Student Led Conferencing & Tech

Our middle school has been doing Student Led Conferencing (SLCs) for four years now and we’ve been making it better each year. As a middle school, we’ve come up with a plan of action and have something that we are going to move forward with next year. It has worked so well, our [...]

Shifting our Schools – EARCOS Admininstrator’s Conference

When I was on Jeff Utecht’s SOS Podcast a few weeks ago with Jenny Luca, Tom Barrett and David Carpenter we spent our time talking about what makes the shift happen school-wide. The Essential Question: How do we bring school’s forward at a more rapid pace? I keep coming back to the same [...]

Live Blogging from EARCOS Admin. Conference

I live blogged Jeff’s session today about communication. Great conversation from people all over the world! Thanks for participating and we’ll see you at my session this afternoon!

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Shanghai k12Online Conversations

I am amazed by technology still… good thing too! Every time I use technology or even think about technology, I learn so much more about connections through conversations with people around the world. Over the weekend, we met at Jonathan Chambers house for the continuation of our k12online conversation. Remarkable really – we [...]

Edublogger Con Learning 2.008 – Why I Do What I Do

How lucky am I?

To sit in the room with roughly 40 educators, talking about tech, sharing our thoughts, discussing what works, seeking insights and knowledge from those that have been there before.  THAT IS WHY I DO WHAT I DO!  I realize I’m yelling, but the bottom line is that with the [...]

HIgh School Assessment for the 21st Century

Tom Schimmer, Vice Principal ~Penticon Secondary School, Penticon British Columbia

Rob Horner, University of Oregon professor says,

Effective schools strive toward a community that has a common vision of goals and objectives, a common language of procedures and processes and common experiences through routines and outcomes.

Conversations in high schools are difficult because [...]

PowerPoint Presentation Facelift – Live Blogging at NECC ’08

PowerPoints Again??

I suppose we go into each of these sessions with our own point of view. We read a description of a workshop or session, perhaps do a little research on the presenter and then go in hoping to get our needs met. This time I head to David Jakes and Dean [...]

My First Take on NECC 08

Leading up to NECC, all I heard about was Edubloggercon, Edubloggercon… people were excited about it, but everytime I went online to investigate, it just seemed huge to me. I felt like Edubloggercon was going to be about the philosophy of technology rather than talk about tools. For this reason, I decided to [...]

Student Led Conferencing Success!

A special thanks to the SAS parent and student community for logging into The Outside Looking In blog. Your comments have inspired me which is why I have started this blog. As many of you know, I will be stepping away from the math world next year and will serve as the middle [...]