Kelly Christopherson's Blog – May 2007 Archive (12)

Well, I’ve been tagged by Brian over at Snacks and Staff Meetings about my best productivity tips. It’s taken me a while to get to this one so maybe my tips aren’t really that effective. But, I’ll throw them

out there and you can see if they might work for you.

Tip #1 - Find an all-in-one organizer and stick with it. This took me some time but I really like the Zoho planner and now it stays open on my…

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There has been a great discussion going on over at Bump on the Log and We Live in Interesting Times about whether we should or should not be preparing our students for the “business world”. Now, in reading through the posts and the comments, I

began to wonder what exactly we are preparing them for? I mean, I don’t

know how…

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Well, like many teachers and administrators, the end of May and June are times when things get a bit hectic. It seems that each year, no matter how much I plan, I always seem to be crunched for time. So why

am I writing this blog if I don’t have much time? Good question.

Since I began on this web2.0 journey in January, I’ve begun to rely on this blog as a place to discuss important ideas, sound off about things that are bugging me and ask for input on ideas that are…

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I have been doing quite a lot of reading and commenting over the long weekend. This has given me a chance to read and contemplate what others are saying which is always good. Also, I’ve been thinking about

what the new school year will bring. With only 5 weeks left, the new

school year is approaching quickly while this school year is racing

towards its end.

I came across an interesting piece over at Harold Jarche’s site.…

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I’ve been tagged by Lynn over at Learning. Goals - what do I have? Actually, I had to go Donald Taylor’s blog to see what he did. This led me to Ev Nucci’s blog where I found a series of very well explained goals. For those of you new into blogging, this is how you find new ideas and things…

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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…

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"Well that went off without a hitch" commented one of the parents today as we were finishing our first attempt at an afternoon with community and students being together. "Community Day" was a great success as 50 community members joined 100 of our students for an afternoon of games, activities and cookie decorating followed by a talent show with many of our student showing off their many talents. It was a great afternoon, to be sure, but it was so great because the group of teachers organizing… Continue

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This morning we have the pleasure of listening to Dr. Elizabeth Murphy from Memorial University of Newfoundland where she is an Associate Professor of Education-Technology. Her presentation began

with a review of the changes that are taking place in the digital

world. The background was a look at “then” and “now”.

She then moved onto discuss her study of e-learning in Newfoundland using activity theory to guide her study. She interviewed 18 teachers who had various…

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I’m in a session with Donna Desroche from North Battleford. She was a library technologist and, just recently became a technology coordinator. She was having a great time doing this presentation!

Institutional Context - Comprehensive Community School that is very

diverse with an alternate option and AP courses. The school was using

Linux/redhat - made the change in 2000. This created…

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I’m at the TLt IT Summit2007 in Saskatoon, SK. Ian Jukes is the opening keynote speaker talking about the need to move education from where it is to where it needs to be. Through the keynote, he

constantly refers to the need for educators to acknowledge the world of

the kids where it is now. Educators were not trained to teach the way

that these students are learning. To engage these students there…

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