WOW is all that describes Warlick’s keynote. Anytime a keynote speaker can run a half hour late (no fault of David’s…herding teacher’s is like herding cats)and still have teachers talking about his message on an hour bus ride home is an exciting day! Before I get to far here are my notes for the second half of the keynote. Telling […]
Tags: redefine literacy warlick What do we do with all this information. If 0.01% is only in print and we do not have access to digital information? Are we asking this question in every lesson that we teach: “Is this preparing our students for THEIR future?” To be literate today mean more than being able to read. It means being […]
Well, we’ve hit the half way point and I think for David the worst of it is over. Tomorrow we have a geek meet in the morning where all the technology teachers get to sit around and talk tech with David…sounds like a podcast opportunity to me. 🙂 We had some good conversation today and David was part of a […]
Another great day with David. My morning started off with this e-mail from one of the teachers from yesterday’s session: I just wanted to tell you how inspiring David Warlick’s blog session was yesterday. Seriously, I am totally psyched to use blogs in ESOL next year. The session also gave me a starting point for doing a little catch-up in […]
I can’t believe it’s only Tuesday and I’m not the one presenting. Today David did 4 sessions for teacher and then a parent night. Getting home around 8:30pm, I’m sure he’s sleeping well. 🙂 If you EVER get the chance to have David do a parent presentation at your school do it! Although it wasn’t a very good turn out, […]
Well we’re through the first day of David Warlick’s visit. He did three sessions on Harnessing the Digital Landscape with our teachers and one Video Games in education….and today is a light day for him. When we bring speakers in..which isn’t very often, we tend to have them going full on and David is no exception. One thing that struck […]
Preparing for our upcoming Tech Fest is taking it out of me…and more importantly taking up my blogging time. I find myself eager to just sit, relax and blog….funny that writing has become a relaxing activity for me….never in my life did I ever think that would happen. The biggest crime of the last week and a half is the […]
I’ve made it a point to take some time out of my busy day to relax and read and respond to some student blogs at our school’s blog headquarters. I’ll try not to do this too ofter..but sometimes the writing and reflection are so good…I just have to share. So here is what has me thinking tonight. Katrinablog Even though […]
There is this amazing elementary school counselor at our school (Full Disclosure: I’m married to her) who set out about a month ago to incorporate technology into her classroom lessons around friendship. She found the school’s resident techno geek and putting their heads together they came up with a plan to help 4th graders better understand the meaning of friendship, […]
I swear I passed myself in the hallway today. The last two weeks have been a whirl wind but I wanted to take some time at 11pm tonight to actually reflect on the past two weeks and some fun and amazing stuff that is going on here. Last week I set up all 3 of my classes with a netvibes […]