I conducted three “power hour” sessions at one of our member districts at each of their campuses (elementary, middle school, and high school).

The “show and tell” method worked beautifully for this. My goal was not to build conceptual understanding, teach ettiquette, connect to background knowledge, or even show the technology. I was given the charge [...]

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8:00-8:30 AM (Pre-local time)
Connect to Janine’s bridge and lurk in connection between Michigan/Namibia cultural exchange. Discovered that my participants were skyping with their buddies in the other sites talking about the presentation.
8:30-9:00 AM (Local Time)
Continued watching Namibia connection and working on connection with Ted from Phonoscope…actually, Shane was back today, so I handed the phone [...]

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Today was Day 1 of my favorite training, 123VC: Jazz, and it was a whirlwind day. This is my third time as a site facilitator and each session has a similar rhythm, but is a distinctly different experience. This time, Ashton has asked me to keep a “scribbly journal” of what I am doing during [...]

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You know by now that I have been on my “Learn, Teach, then Lead” philosophy as Ed and I tried to figure out how best to introduce videoconferencing and Web 2.0 Technologies to our schools. This has led me to think about how I learn.
Here it is in a nutshell. My learning pattern.

Do it. (Don’t [...]

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