Before the Apple Distringuished Educator Asia Institute began, I headed on down to Singapore with a few other ADEs to be part of Final Cut Pro training. I’ll admit, I’ve opened Final Cut Express a few times but I haven’t really spent too much time with it. It, along with Final Cut Pro, [...]
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David Gran and Mikey McKillip open S2F2 After months of planning, the Shanghai Student Film Festival proved to be one of the most rewarding experiences of this teacher’s career. Why? The number of students from international schools across Shanghai and across the world that were able to participate and be a part [...] We have been VERY busy planning the Shanghai Student Film Festival over the past several months. This has turned out to be such an amazing experience for so many of our middle school studentsin my school. This year, more than ever, students are creating content and displaying their knowledge using multimedia software on [...] As we move into full swing for our 1:1 planning at my school, we find ourselves in the position of celebrating and over-communicating about what we’ve been able to achieve with a laptop cart program. I decided to use prezi as it’s like a Keynote, but it’s much more dynamic [...] I’ve always loved Wordle and I can’t help but love this too! It’s actually very timely as I prepare for my presentation to my staff about Developing a Personal Learning Network. Thanks to Langwitches for the connection to TwitterSheep! Here is my word cloud created from the bios of my followers (@adecardy) on [...] 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 [...] This week my school was re-accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. These are my notes from the WASC Presentation on Thursday after school and I post them in hopes that some of you may find them interesting! I walked away from this presentation feeling validated and inspired to continue the [...] I will admit that living overseas, I have become a Grey’s Anatomy fan. I love it when they say, “seriously?” on the show. It just makes me laugh. All day today, I have been saying “seriously?” as I’ve been gobsmacked by the huge undertaking of moving to a 1:1 laptop school. It’s the [...] I had a purple ribbon on my name tag when I walked around NECC ’08 in San Antonio that proclaimed I was International. The conversation went something like this with most people I met: “You work where?” “Shanghai, China at Shanghai American School” “How did you get to do that?” “It was easy [...] I haven’t seen my husband this week. Between his Board meetings and his meetings at SAS Puxi, I’ve been a full-time mom and full-time educator – they are not mutually exclusive. So when he said to me, “Amanda? I have another meeting Thursday night? Wanna come so that I can spend some time [...] |
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