Clif's Notes

I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0

• Elementary Teachers, I Need Your Advice
• Reply to Miguel Guhlin
• Learn with Us (IDT7078)
• AudioBoo in the Classroom (Thinking Out Loud #3)

Planning District-Wide Technology Professional Development

Brenda McCombs, Drew Polly, Clif Mims and ALBHS Science Department
2009 Midsouth Technology Conference

We’ll be sharing information about the Impacting Kannapolis Program today at the MidSouth Technology Conference (MSTC). This program is in its 2nd year of funding through the IMPACT Technology Grant sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. My involvement with this program consists of providing several weeks of professional development in instructional design and technology integration each summer.

This presentation will describe the approaches to designing and implementing district-wide professional development in a high-need, Title I school district. The workshop will share approaches to supporting teacher learning and teacher leaders, and also highlight technologies and projects that have been used in schools.

NOTE: Visit the collaborative wiki page for this presentation at Learning Telecollaboratively for additional information and resources. Photos from this presentation are available at Lifestreaming from My iPhone (my Posterous).

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Conference Tag: #mstc09

• It’s Good to Be Back
• It’s Good to Be Back, Again!
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology
• Professional Development Partnership with MASE

Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant

“The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [yesterday] announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. [The] announcement includes $290 million in grants to support four Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching sites that have developed groundbreaking plans to improve teacher effectiveness. Another $45 million will go toward the Measures of Effective Teaching project, a research initiative that seeks to define effective teaching and identify fairer and more reliable evaluative measures.” (Source)

Read the Full Press Release

• Educational Reform – Bill Gates Addresses Legislators
• An Opportunity to Make a Difference
• Lowe’s Toolbox for Education
• 13 Yr. Old CEO of Innovative Educational Gaming Company

21st Century Schools

Dr. Stephen Heppell’s video about 21st century schools provokes you to consider what lies ahead. Wes Fryer states that this video “makes a strong case for blended learning where the learning connection between home and school is seamless.”

• Do Schools Kill Creativity?
• Will Ed Tech Win in 2008?
• President Advocates Merit Pay and Charter Schools
• Lowe’s Toolbox for Education

Did You Know 4.0

I’ve been developing workshops for the BILD Institute for the past couple of months and I’ve discovered/rediscovered many quality resources about educational reform, instructional design, technology integration, and innovation as well as many new web tools and services. I hope to share much of this with you here on this blog (You can also go ahead and access it on the BILD Institute site.). The first resource I’d like to share is this recently updated version of the Did You Know/Shift Happens video (See previous versions here, here and here.). “This is another official update to the original Shift Happens video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.” (Source)

• Did You Know?/Shift Happens
• Wordles of Every Inaugaration Speech [Video and Gallery]
• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant
• Suggested Mac Software

Do You Believe in Me?

This is a great video for teachers, staff, administrators, students and parents to watch as we all begin a new school year. It was developed for the Starkville School District (Hometown of the Mississippi State Bulldogs!).

• Teachers’ Online Identities
• The 11th Annual Beyond Access Inclusion Conference in Memphis, TN
• Pay Attention
• Be an Extraordinary Teacher

Are You Engaging Your Students?

This important message is brought to you by a group of 5th and 6th grade learners.

• Developing Educational Technology Courses
• New Diigo Group
• Why Would Learners Use Diigo?
• Sputnik’s 50th Anniversary

Educational Reform – Bill Gates Addresses Legislators

The following is the text of Bill Gates’ remarks at the National Conference of State Legislatures. The Microsoft co-founder shares his ideas about “how federal stimulus money should be used to spark educational innovation, spread best practices and improve accountability” along with his belief that the “U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and by developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers” (Source).

• Memphis City School Receive $90 Million Grant
• The 11th Annual Beyond Access Inclusion Conference in Memphis, TN
• President Advocates Merit Pay and Charter Schools
• K-12 Online Conference

Breaking through the Walls of the Classroom (iCiL Keynote)

These are the slides for my keynote address for the iConnect iLearn Conference. Unfortunately some of the animations and formatting were lost when uploaded to my SlideBoom. The presentation wiki contains the database of teacher-generated strategies for breaking through the walls of the classroom and all the presentation resources. I hope to create a Vidcast or SlideCast of this presentation once things settle down.

• Using Digital Technologies and PLNs to Enhance Learning
• Breaking through the Walls of the Classroom (KCS PD)
• Connecting the Classroom and Outside World
• Multiple Representations of Understanding with Technology

Meeting the Demands of a New Age

• I Need My Teachers To Learn 2.0
• 21st Century Schools
• 1 Thing New Teachers Should Know
• 1 Thing New Teachers Should Know