On Wednesday April 4th, the Ontario ConnectED Leaders will host their monthly Twitter chat at 8:00 p.m. (eastern daylight time). The topic will be BYOD: leveraging the benefits, getting ready. Here are a very resources that might help prepare you for the chat topic. I hope to see you in the Twitter chat. Join in with hashtag #ontcl Intel: Teachers Engage BYOD in primary BYOD: What’s in a device? Scooped: A Principal’s memo Scooped: Using student owned devices in the classroom ~Mark Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
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ECOO 2012 Call For Presenters
Go, Do That…
Twitter Chat – Wed. March 7th 8:00 – 9:00 EST
Parents as Partners Webcast – Building a Learning Network
ECOO 2012 Call For Presenters
The Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) will hold its annual conference: Learning in the NOW Century October 25th – 26th, 2012 at the Parkway Sheraton Hotel in Richmond Hill. Preconference events, including Minds on Media will take place on October 24th. The keynote speakers are Michael Fullan, John Seely Brown and Nora Young. Michael Fullan is a renowned writer and speaker on educational leadership and change. In his most recent collaboration with Andy Hargraeves, Fullan explore the challenges and offer guidance on approaches to transforming education at the school and system level. Fullan has also written many other texts about leading change, including Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Systemic Change in which he explores four policy mistakes that he believes are counter-productive to achieving sustainable systemic change in education. No doubt his talk at ECOO12 will stimulate rich discussion
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Go, Do That…
“…if you’re afraid of something, of putting yourself out there, of creating a kind of connection or a promise, that’s a clue that you’re on the right track. Go, do that.” ~Seth Godin~ When they find out that I’m a fairly active blogger and tweeter, colleagues and friends often ask me why I engage in these activities. I have a wide range of responses that range from the poetic, to the pithy, to the pointed; depending upon the context and the relationship I have with the person. This isn’t about that~I assume that the fact you are reading a blog post suggests some degree of tolerance for the form and an understanding of why blogging matters in our world and, in particularly, in education. Nope, this is about an awesome email I received from
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Twitter Chat – Wed. March 7th 8:00 – 9:00 EST
Please take a moment to vote for a topic for a twitter chat using #OntCL on Wednesday, March 7th form 8 – 9 pm EST. Visit the poll on our Facebook Page. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
Parents as Partners Webcast – Building a Learning Network
Many schools are beginning to use social media to send out information to parents. Examples include twitter feeds and facebook pages. These initial forays into social media are a first step. They provide parents and the community with greater access to information regarding the school and the learning happening within its walls. A key facet of school leadership is developing relationships, both within staff and also with families and the community. This relationship building must include seeking feedback and listening. Most of this work is done face to face, through school events or outreach programs and even through informal conversations in the hallways or at drop off or pick up time. We live in a time when top-down leadership and closed door meetings are no longer seen as the way to get things done. Stakeholders want to be involved in
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Twitter Chat Wednesday, January 25th 8 – 9 pm EST
Please take a moment to vote for a topic for a twitter chat using #OntCL on Wednesday, January 25th form 8 – 9 pm EST. Create interactive meetings at Poll Everywhere Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
Education and Social Media — The View from Ontario
Earlier this week I read Chris Kennedy’s blog post “Education and Social Media in British Columbia“. Chris takes stock of where edublogging is at in BC and includes the provocative claim that BC is numero uno across Canada when it comes to the use of social media in education. As much as I like to remind myself that I am not competitive, it just isn’t true Chris’ claim got to me. I tweeted his post to share it with others with the lament, “wish I could say the same for Ontario”. Doug Peterson tweeted back: We were both preparing to craft responses to Chris’ post and it occurred to us that we should work on it together using a google doc. Then we thought – hey, why not invite everyone from the active Ontario Edubloggers’ community! So we tweeted the link and
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Why Blog?
I sat at the back of the the room (as usual) with a few dear colleagues at our last monthly administrators’ meeting listening to my friend and colleague Stephen Louca give a brief talk about the role and impact of social media in the area of leadership and learning. Stephen supports our schools and teachers in the area of technology integration and is a very smart, and very engaging, presenter. Stephen was sharing some of the ways social media platforms are used by students, teachers and school leaders to connect and extend their learning. He shared some tweets, examples of ways Moodle, Facebook and Edmodo are used in education and then took us to some administrator blogs to illustrate some of the ways principals and vice principals were using blogs. He shared two compilation sites; the excellent Connected Principals blog
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Join In! Your PLN is Waiting.
It’s another Sunday evening. The dishes are done and we are winding down after a busy weekend. Before planning for the week, I check in with my PLN to see what they are sharing. Tweetdeck makes it easy to follow the ongoing conversations about learning. I quickly scan the postings and in my #edchat column, I click a post with a link that takes me to a page listing administrator blogs to follow. I’ve read some of them before, others are new to me. I click on Pair-a-Dimes, a blog I have not read in a long time, and posted there is David Truss’ presentation for the K-12 online conference: Transforming Education Together. While viewing his VoiceThread, I hear some very insightful comments about how to encourage and support teachers in moving from knowing they want to use educational technology,
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#OntCL twitter chat December 14th 8pm EST
Please take a moment to vote on the topic for our next #OntCL twitter chat. It will take place Wednesday, December 14th at 8pm EST. Vote by clicking the topic you would prefer. Create your own sms poll at Poll Everywhere Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend
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