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Glenda Watson Hyatt shares her experiences living with cerebral palsy to motivate and inspire others to think about how they perceive their own situation and their own world around them. She does all this by typing with only her left thumb! (Source)
I’m redesigning the access of my list of educational resources. The list has just gotten too long to link each one from the blog’s menu. Instead, I’m moving them all to a (hopefully) better designed and more useful page, but that’s a work in progress. In the interim you can access them by clicking on the Ed. Resources & PLN link in the Navigation menu of this blog.
I’d enjoy it if you would connect/friend/follow me on any of these resources that you use. I truly believe that I’m a better teacher and scholar as a result of my interaction with you, the members of my personal learning netwrok (PLN).
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Teachers can take advantage of the holiday season to help learners practice writing personal letters since many children are excitedly waiting on Santa’s arrival. Here are a few suggested resources to help you with this lesson.
It would also be a good idea to teach the students about writing thank you letters once school resumes after the holidays.
Please also consider being a part of The Challenge.
Dr. Soonhwa Seok shared the following information with me during the 2008 AECT Convention. I thought some of you might also be interested in contributing to this text.
Handbook of Research on Human Cognition and Assistive Technology: Design, Accessibility and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Proposals Submission Deadline: 11/25/2008
Full Articles Due: 2/10/2009
“The handbook will address the relationships among human cognition, assistive technology and its design, and the consumers of assistive technology. The book will also suggest ways to enhance the accessibility and adaptability of assistive technology by implementing human cognition into the design. The discussion of human cognition and assistive technology belongs within the discipline of cognitive psychology because human cognition will be implemented into the design of assistive technology. For example, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, and cognitive theories will be discussed. As included and defined in section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the subject area of assistive technology falls under special education.” [more...]
I’m excited to be working with Kannapolis City Schools again (Previous Posts: 1, 2). I’m helping provide professional development for part of their grant funded technology integration initiative called IMPACT. I’ve been asked to facilitate the following workshops:
Please share any resources, information, cases, scenarios, etc. that you think will help teachers learn more about these topics by clicking on the session titles above and adding your contribution to the Notes and Resources from My PLN section at the bottom of each wiki. Rest assured that I welcome your input in this endeavor!
I’m spending today and tomorrow with teachers in McNairy County Schools. I’m looking forward to them discovering Andrew Churches’ revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and related resources. We’ll also explore ways to effectively integrate a wide variety of digital technologies and Web 2.0 tools with teaching and learning. Watch for us as we venture out into the network. We’ll be using the following tag for everything related to this professional development workshop: mcnairypd (and #mcnairypd on Twitter).
I’ve spent most of today participating in the following sessions and meeting online friends in the Bloggers’ Cafe. I’m looking forward to the presentation of the ISTE Classroom Observation Instrument (ICOT) later today. I’m curious to see how it stacks up against similar instruments like LoTi. Perhaps I’ll get a chance to post my thoughts about it. For now, here’s what I’ve attended to day.
Diigo: A Swiss Army Knife for Your Browser by Maggie Tsai, Diigo Co-Founder
Maggie gave a crash course in the basic features and use of Diigo. After her presentation she asked to interview me on camera and I reluctantly agreed. I shared some of the most common ways that Diigo is being used by my students, teachers with whom I mentor in professional development, and by me. She also asked me to share ways that I thought their technology could be improved and I reiterated ideas that I’d previously shared on Miguel’s discussions (here and here) related to this topic. I was pleased with her responses to my technical and design suggestions (She even contacted the engineers about one of the issues while we were talking.) and she provided Diigo’s rationale for why the ads, for now, will continue to exist throughout the tool. She assured me that they are indeed considering
Creating a Ning Network from Scratch by Steve Hargadon
If you want to learn about setting up your own Ning you might as well learn from the master. I’m comfortable using this “tool” but Steve provided useful insight regarding design and implementation which I found valuable.
Using Understanding by Design (UbD) to Create Technology Rich, Deep Learning Unit Plans by Chris Lehmann and Marcie Hull
There are oodles of similar models out there but I found this one to be practical but thorough. I’m going to take another look at Understanding by Design when I return home.
Diving Deep into Google Earth and Google Maps
Web 2.0 in Teacher Education (Program Info)
Designing the 21st Century Global Learning Environments (Program Info)
I’ll be updating this post throughout the day to alert you of things happening here at EBC San Antonio. The full list of sessions is here. I’ll be sharing information form the sessions that I’m attending. The session titles are in bold.
Social Networking for Professional Development
Scott Merrick is sitting next to me and streaming this discussion live.
Social Networking in the Classroom
Vicki Davis is sitting by me and is streaming this seession here.
I’m spending the next couple of days providing professional development for some of the tech-savvy outstanding teachers with Kannapolis City Schools. My classes will be focusing on teaching and learning with Web 2.0 (Becoming my new thing, I guess.) and creating and using podcasts in the classroom.
Note to my online PLC:
I hope to demonstrate the power and benefits of an online personal learning community (PLC) during my time here, but I’ll need your help with that. Please share your ideas, resources, examples, and advice on these topics. I’m sure the teachers here at KCS would appreciate and benefit from your input. You can respond in the comments section of this post or add information to the related section on my wiki.
PLEASE share! 
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