Part of the Cool Sites series Image courtesy of @teflpet. In the picture above you can see a great friend of mine, Emma Herrod, and her son who have video-conferenced with my classes and workshops. When the teachers in my last workshop interviewed Emma via Skype about our interaction through Skype they were excited about [...]
Archives for August, 2010
Learning Beyond Walls: 21 Skype Resources
Children and Cardboard Boxes
In addition to this blog I have been posting a few times at the Cooperative Catalyst blog, which is a fantastic forum to read various opinions on how we can transform education. The educators have vast experience and pour their hearts out in every post. This post I originally posted on the Cooperative Catalyst blog [...]
Learning Beyond Walls- Games and Wikis!
Part of the Cool Sites series Many of you have started school already and are integrating new technology in your curriculum. Wikis are one of my favorite tools for encouraging learning beyond the classroom walls. I’m sharing with you this post I originally wrote for one of my favorite blogs, ELT Digital Play, back in [...]
To Grade or Not to Grade? by Tom King
Part of the series: Global Issues in Education by Guest Author, Tom King To grade or not to grade? That is the question, but what is the answer? How did you feel the first time you had a grade attached to you? You know…a letter C, maybe with a + or a -. Or maybe [...]
Happy Birthday #Edchat PLN!
#Edchat turns ONE this week! THANK YOU! It has been an incredible year of opening a conversation to over 2000 educators weekly! The conversation began a year ago with 3 educators (Tom Whitby (@TomWhitby), Steven Anderson (@Web20Classroom), and I (@ShellTerrell)) who desired education reform and saw the need for educational stakeholders to discuss, debate, explore, [...]



