Friday, January 25, 2008

AWNM Story Fishbowl/LiveBlog Per. 4

Participants for January 25th LiveBlog:

Dan Maas:
Dan is the Chief Information Officer for Littleton Public Schools as well as a parent of a LPS student.

Lori Soifer:
Lori is a School Board Trustee from Birmingham, MI.

Lucie Stanish:
Lucie is the Treasurer of the Littleton Public Schools' School Board.

AWNM Story Fishbowl/LiveBlog Per. 3

Participants for January 25th LiveBlog:

Miguel Guhlin:
Miguel is Director of Instructional Technology for a large urban district in Texas, as well as President of the state-wide Technology Education Coordinators group in one of the largest United States technology educator organizations. He continues to model the use of emerging technologies in schools under his goal “…to use powerful technologies to transform practice and enable learners to communicate and collaborate with each other.”

Lucie Stanish:
Lucie is the Treasurer of the Littleton Public Schools' School Board.

Ben Wilkoff
Ben is a passionate Educational Technologist. He lives to collaborate and create with districts, schools and individuals. He was named the Totally Wired Teacher of 2007 by The George Lucas Educational Foundation (Edutopia) and Yahoo for Teachers. He lives with his wife and child (soon to be two) in Denver, Colorado. Ben teaches at Cresthill Middle School in Highlands Ranch, CO

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Mr. Pink wants to hear from you...

Mrs. Smith emailed Mr. Pink about what we have been doing in class and he has responded. Here is an excerpt from an email she received from Daniel Pink. He wants to know...


i wonder if somewhere in this process you could pose a question to your students. it's one i've been pondering, but my hunch is that your students will have more interesting answers than i could summon myself. the question would be something like this: If you had to create a new school -- or reform your current school -- so that it better develops the six senses, what one or two things would you do?

don't want to throw you off your lesson plan, but i'd love to hear
how the young women and men of arapahoe would respond that one.
maybe we could talk a little about it during our live blogging or some other venue?

thanks again for your great work.

cheers,
dan


So, either on the class blog, in your Personal Learning Journal, or both, respond thoughtfully to his question. This might be one you continue to come back to time and again reflecting your change of thinking as we discuss, read, and react to one another's' thoughts.

Friday, January 18, 2008

AWNM Design Fishbowl/LiveBlog Per. 4

Participants for January 18th LiveBlog

James Folkestad:
James is an associate professor from CSU in Fort Collins, CO. He is currently working on developing social networking uses in and out of the classroom in order to “leverage the collective wisdom and collapse the network around (him).”

Jeff Whipple:
Jeff is a technology mentor from Fredericton, NB, Canada. Jeff started teaching only five years ago and has over the course of a few years been, “… forced to readjust, rethink and relearn all that I had previously known.” Jeff moved from the rural school to Nashwaaksis Middle School where he is transforming his school to be the largest 1:1 laptop school in Canada. He comments about the entire venture, “There is a revolution taking place, and our students are the revolutionaries. We can either join them in a velvet transition, or be run over by the trucks.”

AWNM Design Fishbowl/LiveBlog Per. 3

Participants for January 18th LiveBlog:

Darren Draper:
Darren is a technology Curriculum Specialist for the Jordan School District in Salt Lake City, UT. He is an avid educational technology enthusiast who loves technology, when it works...

Sharon Peters:
Until June 2007, Sharon Peters was teaching English at an independent middle and high school in Montréal , Lower Canada College. In the summer of 2007, she began her new role as education consultant for LEARN, an arm of the ministry of education in Québec, Canada. There she acts as the English Language Arts resource “go to” girl for the English sector of the province of Québec.

Jeff Whipple:
Jeff is a technology mentor from Fredericton, NB, Canada. Jeff started teaching only five years ago and has over the course of a few years been, “… forced to readjust, rethink and relearn all that I had previously known.” Jeff moved from the rural school to Nashwaaksis Middle School where he is transforming his school to be the largest 1:1 laptop school in Canada. He comments about the entire venture, “There is a revolution taking place, and our students are the revolutionaries. We can either join them in a velvet transition, or be run over by the trucks.”