For those of you in my session “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction,” here are the links to the cell phone stuff we did: Photo blogging from a cell phone Audio blogging from a cell phone Polling via text messaging
New ways to look at content and 1:1
Happy New Year! I haven’t been blogging as much as usual the last month or two because I am up to my ears in a ton of curriculum we’re developing for mobile devices. (THE Journal ran a nice article about
NCETC session materials
For those who requested them, here are the presentation materials from my sessions NCETC. Just for fun, I’ve used a few different slide sharing programs here, so you can compare and contrast; see notes below. Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate
Mobile tech workshop
At NCETC yesterday, I facilitated the “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” workshop using a wiki. (This wiki is set up to be used to facilitate a F2F workshop, such as we did at NCETC, or to be used as
Free online workshop
Well, the workshop on “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate Instruction” that I wrote about earlier is pretty well finished. I’m really happy with the content in it and think this is a great resource for schools using mobile tech and
Differentiating Professional Development
In my on-going quest to differentiate instruction for teachers as a part of workshops I do, I’ve been experimenting with using blogs and wikis as PD tools. The latest installment in this is a hands on workshop on using mobile
More thoughts on prof dev
Last week, I did some hands on workshops in new format — 2 hours! Normally, the shortest hands on session I’ll do is 3 hours, and I prefer 6 hours, especially for beginner podcasting sessions. But I thought I’d give
ccLearn
Creative Commons today announced the formation of a new division, ccLearn. This group is “dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources” and has a stated mission “to minimize barriers to
How we learn
I’ve been reflecting on how we teach and learn…not with students, but with colleagues in professional development. Unfortunately, many of us (myself included) don’t always model the use of the strategies we know are most effective for learning. Many PD
Differentiating Instruction with Mobile Technology
At NECC last week, I presented a session called “Using Mobile Technology to Differentiate and Enrich Instruction.” The ISTE folks had wanted to podcast the session, but I wasn’t crazy about the legal agreement they were using. (It wasn’t Creative