May 2007 Blog Posts (125)

By Alix E. Peshette

In last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure to spend time working with 5^thand 6^th grade teachers and students in their school computer lab. This school is in the first year of an EETT grant (Enhancing…

Around here we keep wondering why it is taking so long for all the teachers out there to begin to utilize technology in their teaching repertoire. Why don't they take advantage of the great teaching and learning opportunities that cutting edge technology makes available to them? Why don't they make the effort to enter the 21^st Century,…

A few years back after being slim all my life, I gained weight rapidly, and in the space of a year went from being average to outsize. Buying clothes became torture, In fact after trying on outfit after outfit I generally went home with the first thing I tried on in my bag, or worse still, hot, flustered and depressed, without making a purchase at all.

While I love the possibilities opened up by Web20, I feel like that outsize me on one of those doomed to fail shopping…

On Thursday morning, Tom Doar, our Head of School, wandered into the library where I was getting ready to help work with our fifth graders on their iMovie project which I wrote about last week. He told me:

On Tuesday evening, at a meeting of the strategic plan committee chairs, Pam Whalley, our Lower School Head stated that the accessibility to technology has changed the way that teaching and learning are done in the classroom, especially in the last three years. Teachers…

http://k5tech.edublogs.org/

By Alix E. Peshette



I’ve been on an interesting learning curve lately, nailing down the intricacies of Google Earth, YouTube and…

Today I had an interesting conversation today about using technology in the classroom and in the school and in the school division. Now, I’m very interested in moving the use of technology along beyond just a

minor few looking at some technology use in classrooms. I would like to

have it front and center in our division where we are looking at how to

build the skills of the teachers and create learning opportunities for

teachers and students. Right now, it is no more than…

A must read article on an idea for a new network and conference for Innovation in Education:

http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/05/learning_dna_pe.html

Anyone interested???

Here I am joining yet another community of web 2.0 proponents. It's like leaving those "loosely connected pieces" or a "subject scent trail" through the web. But enough gripes about the lack of integration.

I do considerable work here at the university and within the secondary school system advocating for the use of social software in the teaching and learning process. Of late I've been pushing the use of Elgg - a.k.a Eduspaces - and have developed a variety of Elgg based social…

Just found this on my del.icio.us subscriptions page.

From: The Guardian Unlimited

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2073781,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=8

"The most expensive state school in Britain will have no playground. The Cambridgeshire authorities ..... believe a lack of outside space will avoid the danger of 'uncontrollable' groups of children…