Idaho Digital Learning Academy Facing Potential Cuts
This isn't the first and probably won't be the last. We were fortunate this year in Michigan to see only minor cuts in our state funding, I don't think we'll be as lucky next year.
At some point the legislators have to figure out how to properly fund and support face to face and virtual education. The question is , will it be be before or after innovative programs like IDLA and Michigan Virtual University are forced into the choice to "go private" or fold for good?
3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology
3 Ways Educators Are Embracing Social Technology
And how do you use it?
High Schools Embracing Online Learning… Who Knew?
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Duarte’s Six Tips for Remote Presenting
Duarte's Six Tips for Remote Presenting.
Some excellent tips on presenting a remote presentation.
Swamped!
So you may have noticed the lack of new posts lately. Well, it was a Mad March followed by an Anxious April (I may have spent a little too much time trying to figure out that second alliteration).
The past two months have found me accepting a new job, attending and presenting at MACUL, preparing a proposal for another conference, a variety of collaborations and of course my online classes. My list of unread tech ed feeds is sitting a little North of 600. I resolve to start working my way through those and start contributing again to the cloud!
Yet another amazing teacher using technology to reach her students
Grand Ledge teacher honored for technology use | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal
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Steve Dembo: Learning to Speak Digital Native
Posted by mobile phone:
Sitting in a great session on Learning to Speak Digital Native. Great stuff, follow @teach42 he is a rock star!
Reflections
photo credit: MumbleyJoe
So I've been preparing for both an upcoming day of in-service workshops with the teachers in my daughter's district and also my presentation for the MACUL conference.
The in-service is going to be two sessions, about three hours each, dealing with personal learning networks (PLN) and the usual web 2.0 stuff. I am very excited because I have been asking them about doing this for a couple of years now and I am finally getting the opportunity. I have planned a pretty open session as they are bringing their laptops and I plan on letting them play and hopefully ask a lot of questions!
As I have been planning these presentations I am continually amazed at the amount of information, tips, tricks, ideas, etc., that have come pouring from my own PLN. My Twitter, delicious, and Google Reader accounts have been invaluable resources in putting these presentations together.
The wikis that I have developed to support these presentations are chock full of links to places that I have come across thanks to my PLN. I was finally able to sift through and put to work all of those RSS feeds that I put a gold star next to. I was finally able to leverage my delicious links that I started collecting two years ago in anticipation of my impending district presentations.
Take a look at my PLN and my delicious links and hopefully you will be able to glean the same kinds of wonderful information, insight, and knowledge that has made my presentations all the better.
P.S. I will present links to my wikis after I have finished the final touches and presentations.
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