Last week, I took advantage of the opportunity to join the webinar, Web 2.0 Tools for School with Brad Fountain. This was a great webinar that refreshed my memory of tools I had once found useful and forgotten about, and presented me with many great “new to me” web 2.0 tools that are surely classroom [...]
As an urban educator, I often find myself repeating the same motivational speech to my students “Don’t give up on yourself! You can do this! You have what it takes to succeed but you have to want it! Put forth your best effort!” No matter which way you say it, your message is the same [...]
It is no mystery that a key to a solid school structure is dependent upon a strong leader. For the past seven years, I have been a member of a school that has experienced a change in leadership both in its Superintendent as well as its Principal. Throughout this journey, it has been evident that [...]
I guess you could say that I am a procrastinator, not because I want to avoid work, but more or less because I am a perfectionist! I avoid doing things simply because I wanted it to be perfect! Well, the end result, is that things simply do not get done! This brings me to why [...]
Any teacher who has had access to a StarBoard, Promethean Board, or Interactive Whiteboard, etc. is lost when it malfunctions or for whatever reason is no longer accessible. Tablet PC’s may be used in a similar manner. True the functionalities and application tools may not be as top-notch, but any port in a storm. Well [...]
Blog it UP!!! As we embark on a new school year, there is no better way to “get connected” with your learning community than blogging or microblogging. Here are a few great sites to get you started: Blogs & Micro Blogging Blogger: your easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, [...]
Thanks to our peeps at Discovery, the Leadership Council Members were given the wonderful opportunity to spend Thursday at the November Learning Conference in Boston. I must say, the keynote given by Dr. Michael Wesch was absolutely inspiring. Michael Wesch is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. He is also the [...]
Here Ye, Here Ye! Attention all Discovery Users. Are you a Discovery Star Educator? WHAT’s that we hear … are you saying NO??? Well, say no more, check out these videos, and you won’t be able to say NO again! http://sites.google.com/site/denlcfizz2010/2-contestAs you learned in the last post, Dr. Lodge McCammon is an inspirational educator and [...]
Have you ever wondered how Common Craft creates their simple yet informative digital videos? Well, thanks to Dr. Lodge McCammon and the DEN LC Symposium, your fearless DEN Leadership Council now knows, and we are here to share it with you! Dr. Lodge McCammon, a good friend of the DEN, currently calls North Carolina his [...]
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