Unconference Me Now

  TeachmeetNJ EdTech Unconference #NTCamp EdcampBoston CoLearning Unconferences. After attending my first unconference, I know that the unconference is for me. It  has to be the model for my own learning and one that I model our school professioanl development on. Because they do not require the infrastructure and organization of a full-blown industry gathering, [...]

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Be the Loudest Voice in the Room

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”—Charles Darwin I was going to write about teacher observations tonight, but after reading my colleague Tony Celini’s post about our professional development work today, I’m a little fired up. As some of you know, [...]

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Face to Face PLN

I started using Twitter and blogging on November 1st, 2010. And I can’t explain how valuable a resource it’s been – the help (as Bill Ferriter writes: Twitter can save you time), the information, and generally fun of it all has been great! And since my return from Educon, I’ve openly talked about social networking [...]

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PD: The Next Step?

We have two forms of professional development that currently exist in my school. One has been a pretty successful attempt at teacher-created and led workshops. Another has been cross-curricular teams in place of our monthly faculty meetings.Without going into a lot of details, prior to about four years ago, there was little culture of professional [...]

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Nothing left to do but Act

I started using Twitter in earnest just a day or two after the last Blog 4 Real Education Reform took place. I started reading about PLN‘s soon after, and started blogging by the end of November. In two months I have learned more from “the internets” than in-house face-to-face PD has taught me in as [...]

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