http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/05/16/leadership-and-technology-ca

A few weeks I wrote about school leaders needing to ‘get’ technology. Scott McLeod seems to be the epicenter of this movement. He is directly involved in UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) which,

“was created to help address the critical nationwide shortage of administrators who can effectively facilitate the implementation of technology in schools and school districts. CASTLE is widely recognized as the nation’s leading authority on the technology needs of K-12 school leaders.”

They go on to descripe,

“CASTLE’s School Technology Leadership graduate certificate program is the only academic curriculum in the country that comprehensively covers ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A). The graduate certificate program has been found by the American Institutes for Research to have positive, statistically significant impacts on participants’ school technology leadership knowledge, skills, and abilities and has been acclaimed for its innovative incorporation of technology into its coursework.”

CASTLE has also created LeaderTalk, a blog from School Administrators, for School Administrators. This has quickly become my must read of the day.

I want to personally thank Scott McLeod for all he has done to bring the relationship between technology and leadership to the forefront.

This seems to be the beginning of what I was looking for during my first post on leaders and technology.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/05/01/defining-21st-century-educat

In my last post I discussed the curriculum design on 21st Century Schools. Recently, Patrick Bassett, President of NAIS has pre-published a paper entitled, “So What’s it Gonna be, Huh?” that defines 21st Century education as:

In my work with schools in the US and around the world, I frequently address groups of leaders, not only educators but their boards of trustees, primarily comprised of CEOs, social sector leaders, professionals, and, internationally, the diplomatic corps. When I ask the kind of “generative” question these school leaders should be asking themselves, “What are the skills and values that will be rewarded in the 21st. C.?,” I always, every time everywhere and anywhere in the world, get the same list:

* integrity and character

* teaming and leadership

* communication skills

* empathy, social and global consciousness

* expertise/competence in some field

* innovativeness and creativity.

What’s interesting is that this “wisdom of the crowd” is actually confirmed by a whole host of researchers, observers, and commissions who have “weighed in” on the topic within the last year or so.

He goes on to list a number of examples of programs that embody these characteristics and challenges schools to implement one of these programs during part of your school day/week.

He’s looking for feedback, and the place where I’m very interested in seeing what is out there is in the examples section. Here is his list.

What are the programs that you think of in Bassett’s definition of a 21st Century School?

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/04/20/educational-research-and-re-

I recently received Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time by Jane Pollock (My ASCD Book of the month). Last year at this time I received Classroom Instruction that Works as my Spring ASCD book. Both of these books have helped me become a better teacher by giving me data to support research based instructional practices. This new book goes even farther, by providing a framework for designing curriculum called, “The Teaching Schema for Master Learners.”

Pollock argues that a good curriculum is defined by having clear expectations (Goals), setting up good instructional models, assessing work, and providing feedback. I see this work as a management style for adults, or a classroom environment for students. I see this pattern: goals, instruction (conversation), assessment, feedback, in Management books such as Good to Great or Now Here are My Strenghts. It’s amazingly flexible and seems to be a process that is running through many different realms of my life.

So why am I writing? Because this data conflicts with a survey on David Warlick’s blog where he asks, “Thinking of those great teachers that you had who truly influenced who you are today. What percentage of what those teachers did do you think might be effectively measured by scientific research, and what percent do you think is not measurable?” and out of 169 respondents he has received the following results:

100% measurable - 0% not measurable:(4%)

75% measurable - 25% not measurable:(12%)

50% measurable - 50% not measurable:(27%)

25% measurable - 75% not measurable:(45%)

0% measurable - 100% not measurable:(13%)

I answered 75% measurable and 25% not measurable. I find survey results like the one above concerning, because 58% of the respondents say that less than 25% teaching skills of great teachers can be measured by scientific research. I just find this hard to believe when reading books like Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time and Classroom Instruction that Works. I believe that there is a type of person that will be a good teacher, but I also believe that these natural teachers can get much better when using current research.

I believe it when Warlick asys that we need to re-define literacy, and learn to use the immense resources on the Internet as part of our schooling. I believe it when Richardson says that we need to Re-Envision Schools due to the new Flat World.

But there are clear processes and techniques that are research based that seem to me to benefit learners in our classrooms. I believe that the best teachers will be looking to use these procedures of curriculum design as found in Improving Student Learning One Teacher to create wonderful learning environments for their students. The declarative knowledge (content) can varied from the most progressive to the most traditional.

I believe that goal of School 2.0 can be the same as President John Adams, “There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.” I believe we can get there in many different ways. I believe that you can use Pollock’s system to define varied schools.

So what do you think?

How does this apply to learning communities such that don’t have clear leadership such as open source projects?

What do you think, Will, David, Nancy, Fred, Laurie, Arvind and June?

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/03/26/professional-development-day

We offered a professional development day in February. Below is the introduction talk I gave to the faculty. The day was successful, because we surveyed the faculty and designed the day for what they needed/required.

Thanks to Nancy White and David Wilcox for their inspirational comments that fundamentally influenced the design of this day.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/03/26/spring-break-slowing-down/

It’s Spring Break. The kids (and teachers) are gone for two weeks… Today has been very quiet. It’s been quite a productive day. Last year at this time, I was running around fixing things and installing new hardware/software. This year, I’m catching up on posting audio files, cleaning out my hard drive, and generally, just trying to catch up a bit.

What’s the difference? We have a new Head of School and Business Manager this year. One of the great parts of these two new perspectives is that I have been forced to slow down and look at our whole program. We have begun to review our mission, student technology program, staffing, budget, computer to technical support ratios, and training/professional development program.

This slowing down has been hard for me. But as we have, I’ve realized parts of the program that were missing/glossed over. So for next year, we will concentrate on reliability of systems and faculty professional development. We will have two new department members next year, and their perspectives will inform our metamorphosis as well.

I keep catching myself wanting to offer professional development seminars on blogging, wikis, etc, but that will come. Our professional development Tech 20s will get there… But I need a critical mass of faculty who are comfortable with tech before we go further. One step at a time.

It feels good to slow down.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/03/07/skype-in-global-ed-program/

Question: I am extremely interested in using Skype in our Global Ed program. Do you give workshops or have good reference materials to pass on to me?

My Response:

Hi,

I webcast weekly at http://www.edtechtalk.com and Skype is the program we use to conference the participants together. I am going to give a workshop in the fall in Baltimore, but I think that with skype and a partner school, you can get this going.

I posted some directions on how we video conferenced with china here: http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/12/05/video-skyping-with-china/

There are so many resources out there. I would check out the Webheads in Action: http://webheadsinaction.org/ for a great group of international teacher where you can create these types of connections. Also, check out http://flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.com/.

I hope this helps.

- Alex

There are tons of other resources… What else am I missing?

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/02/25/so-much-to-write-about-21st-

Boy has it been an intense few weeks. I have so much to write about and will soon. In the mean time, I have a thought.

Last week I had a conversation with a colleague about his head of school. My colleague said the following in reference to technology, education and our changing landscape, “Yeah, my head is young and great, but he doesn’t even get it.”

So Saturday morning, I got up and thought, what about a leadership academy for school heads, principles, and any other school leader that would help them see this new world, these new literacies, and the new frontier that we must adjust our educational system to work with, instead of against.

I Googled for sites that would cover 21st Century School Leadership issues and found some, but most of the links went back to Chris Lehmann at Science Leadership Academy.

Warlick, Richardson, Lehmann and others write about School 2.0, but to get there, I believe we need to have leaders who “get it.” So how do we get our leaders to “get it?” We train them, right? (I know it’s not quite that simple, but…)

Maybe this is the type of project that EducationBridges.org will help fund. What do you think, Dave? Or some national organization or international organization.

What do you think? Do you know of any leadership academy that does this type of work?

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/28/john-seely-brown-interview-b

If you haven’t checked out the School 2.0 interview series that Steve Hargadon had been doing, you’re missing out.

This interview with John Seely Brown challenges my thoughts about education and gave me wonderful ideas on how to begin to explain the shift to my colleagues. This one is getting burnt to CDs and handed to my Administrators. It is inspirational and wonderfully reflective.

Thanks, Steve, for your great work on these interviews!

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/24/questions-about-basic-techno

Thanks, Nancy and David for stretching my thinking about this professional development day.



I’m struggling with appropriate administrative pressure and my department’s buy in to provide basics training to faculty. I have been re-tooling our sessions to allow for better technological solutions for everyday problems. For example, “Appropriate Presentations” would include a discussion about what appropriate skills and guidelines are, how to find images, and create a presentation that is visually appealing. Another example is, “Creating a Newsletter” which would include pulling resources together and then formatting them in a desktop publishing program.

Nancy, I love your visualization question,

“Try to “imagine it is a year from now and you have embraced a couple of tools and practices that make your work more meaningful/fun/productive. What does that look like?”

I plan on using this when asking folks to register for sessions.

I am truly struggling with David’s game. I believe in my heart that that is the way to go, but want to start slow in smaller groups so we have some practice before going to the “big group”. I would like to try this with a small group of faculty during this day.

I hesitate because this is my professional development first day like this with a new Head of School and Business Manager. We have a traditional faculty and I want to expose small groups to this before we do it with the entire faculty.

I will definitely use these exercises in my department over the Spring, and then during our Summer Professional Development series where we’ll be working with faculty to use read/write web options…

I’m trying to be transparent in my writing here… Honest and open. But boy do I feel like I’m not living up to good pedagogical principles for adult learning… It’s very hard to let go of that “control”.

Thanks again, Nancy and David, for stretching me.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/22/questions-about-basic-techno

I have been thinking a lot about what basic technology skills faculty should know. We’ve surveyed our faculty on basic tech skills, and have a good idea of what people know and don’t know, but what Technology skills should they know?

The reason I ask this question is that we have half of a professional development day in February to work with our entire faculty on technology skills. Our plan now is to run 4, 40 minute sessions on the basics: word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, desktop publishing, e-mail, information literacy skills, laptop hardware optimization and troubleshooting and configuration, and a number of other ‘basics’. We are planning lessons that demonstrate and allow participants to practice 2-4 skills, walk them through an Atomic Learning Lesson (if applicable), and give examples of the use of that software in a classroom.

NETS has a long list of skills that beginning teachers should have when entering the classroom. This list is well above the performance point of my faculty.

In order to learn something new, faculty (for that matter - anyone) must feel a need and be engaged. How do we get the second and third wavers to be engaged when teaching the basics? Nancy White asks these types of questions often.

Here are some of the other questions running through my head:

If you were running a seminar for faculty who have a wide variety of technology skills, what would be the core goal of each session that you teach?

Just thinking through my fingers: Start with the learners, know their skill set, and teach them what they need to get to the next level, even if that means configuring windows and file management.

What skills/applications would you teach?

Word vs. Google Docs

Do you have links to examples?

Our lesson plans will be posed here: Tech at Collegiate when complete.

Thanks for your time and thought.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/14/the-readwrite-web-rss-blogs-

1/15/07 Update:

What are they? How can I use them in my Classroom?

Here’s the outline of my NYSAIS Professional Development Seminar for Tuesday. Any comments would be appreciated. Bring Blue SnowBall, Get Richardson: Blogs, Wikis and Podcasting. Review last blogging outline:

Goal of Day: Exposure to RSS, Blogs, Poscasting, Social Bookmarking and

Wikis.  The ability for participants to take one of these and start using it in classes in the near future.

General Themes of the Day: Categories, Tags, Taxonomy, and Folksonomy

9:30 - 10:00: Framing the day

Yarn exercise: How you link together in the real world

10:00 - 10:45: RSS: Reading 21st Century Style

Get a Bloglines Account. Search, Subscribe, Comment.

Other rss feed aggregators: NetVibes and Pageflakes

More about RSS:

• Weblog-ed: Will Richardson


• RSS For Educators: K12 Online Conference: Quentin D’Souza

10:45 - 11:00: Break

11:00 - 12:00: Blogging

Blogging Definition:  Will Richardson and Others (see Examples below)

Why Blog? What is the difference between 21st Century Learning and 20th Century Learning? Dr. Lawrence Lessig’s “Read/Write Society” presentation at Wizards of OS4

Get an EduBlogs Account — What will you blog about? Linking. Categories. Trackback. Tabbed Browsing and Social Bookmarking.

Blogging Platforms:

• EduBlogs - Great Flash Tutorials on the Botton Right


• Blogger - Google’s Blogging Platform

Examples…

• A Difference: Math Scribes


• Global Voices


• Teachers Teaching Teachers


• List of Teacher Bloggers


• David Allen’s Blog


• Dan Rubenstein’s Math Blogging


• My Flickr Blogging Group

Educator Social Blogging

• EducationBridges.net Elgg


• What everyone is saying at EducationBridges.net


• LearningTimes.org 

Blogging Resources:

• About Blogging From the School Computing Wiki


• Support Blogging.com

• Start Blogging


• Articles and Resources


• Bud the Teacher’s Blogging Wiki - Lots of awesome blogging resources in one place


• “Blog if You Love Learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education (Basic)”


• Will Richardson - Why Weblogs, Weblogs in Schools, and the Read Write Web Changes Everything

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch

1:00 - 1:15: Globalism…

• Did You Know by Karl Fisch


• The Web Enabled Teacher

1:15 - 1:45: Podcasting

• Check out the iTunes Directory (need iTunes)


• Search using Podzinger


• School Computing Wiki: How to Podcast

1:45 - 2:30 - Wikis

Review: Creating a Wiki and Wiki While You Work (Basic): Mark Wagner

Examples:

• Wikipedia


• School Computing Wiki


• Vicki Davis


• Collegiate LS Wiki

Possibly: 2:30 - 2:45: Bringing it all Together

Epic 2014

We need to model and teach using information in deep ways! 

Quotes. 

Contact info.

Resources:

• Webheads in Action


• K12 Online Conference



Getting a bit more manageable… What do you think?

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/12/young-readers/

Our Librarian just asked us for a picture of us as a kid and a book that we remember reading… I forwarded it to her, but thought it would be fun to share.

I remember lots of Dr. Seuss when I was a kid: Especially Yertle the Turtle.

Here’s my picture:

This is my dad and me on my Mom’s VW Boxback. I was about 3.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/12/help-iste-develop-the-next-g

Just a forward that I thought the EdTech Community would appreciate:

Help ISTE Develop the Next Generation of NETS for Students

ISTE’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) were introduced

in 1998. Since then, the NETS have served as a common denominator for

effective technology integration in education throughout the country and

around the world. To keep the NETS relevant in today’s increasingly

digital world, ISTE is developing the next generation of the NETS for

Students (NETS*S) and needs your feedback. There are two easy ways for

you to get involved:

* Take the NETS Refresh survey

* Register to attend one of these free NETS Refresh Town Hall being held at regional conferences: FETC, January 25, Orlando, FL and TCEA, February 6, Austin, TX

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/05/google-map-meme-started-by-l

Lucy Gray has started a Google Map Meme.

She asked us to answer the two questions below in a Google Earth Placemarker and then send her the file — she’s going to compile them into one big map…

1) What has been your most memorable learning experience?

2) Who is the teacher that has influenced you the most? and why?

Her instructions are here.

Lucy, Here’s My file!

Now for the folks I’m going to tag… Here we go:

Arvind Grover

Fred Bartels

Bill Knauer

Jim Heynderickx

Richard Kassissieh

The wonder of the blogosphere….

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/03/faculty-survey-update/

Back in November, I posted about a basic skills survey for faculty. I received a number of surveys from folks on the ISED-L listserv and pulled them together into this survey.

The results have been interesting. Many of our faculty knew much of what is on the survey. The holes and comments are what we’ll be digging through the results next week during the first of two 3 hour Technology Department meetings.

Just wanted to get the link to the survey up. Thanks to all who helped me putting this survey together.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2007/01/01/new-years-resolutions/

1. Spend as much time with my family as possible. I learn from my wife and kids each day more than I could ever learn from any other group of people.

2. Keep blogging, webcasting, and reflect on my learning as much as possible. This reflective part of my life has become critical to my being.

3. Be honest about my strengths and weaknesses. Embrace them.

4. Keep reading. I listen to numerous podcasts, read blogs, and listen to the radio — but I have lots books and research that are piled up. I need to balance this out.

5. Have fun with all of this — say no when I need to — and try to keep my life in balance.

Lots to do — lots of challenges — 2007 looks like a good one.

Happy New Year to you all.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/12/23/happy-holidays/

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/12/05/video-skyping-with-china/

About a year ago I started blogging. My third child was two weeks old and I’m not sure what I was thinking, but I started… One of my early posts was about video teleconferencing. I created the video teleconference so the president of a web site development company could observe and ask questions to my web design class during their final presentations. Last year we used a combination of Skype for audio and WebEx for video. We were successful but it was not an elegant solution.

Yesterday, our junior Chinese class video-conferenced with one of their classmates who is on School Year Abroad in Beijing, China. All with Skype. We projected my computer full screen on a projector and ran the audio out through the amp in the classroom. We used the Blue Snowball to capture audio and a Logitech QuickCam for the video on both ends of the call. All of this was run by my IBM X60 on battery power over our Cisco wireless network. PowerGramo recorded the Skype call and I used a Canon SD400 to video tape the class (1 gig card on 320 by 240 and 15fps gives you 45 minutes of video). I ran the 600 meg video through windows media encoder and it’s now 30 megs.

Pretty amazing experience, even though I didn’t understand much of the conversation. The students were amazed at how fluent their friend was. I think that a follow up assignment will be to translate the conversation - especially since some of the students didn’t understand much of it. How quickly you become fluent when immersed.

Exciting day.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/11/17/faculty-technology-assessmen

I’m working on a technology self-assessment for our faculty. We’ve collected a number of surveys from the Independent School community and are using them as a base to create our own. I’ll publish that on the School Computing Wiki when it is done — hopefully by the end of the month.

Our assessment is surveying application skills: Wordprocessing, Spreadsheets, Presentation Software, E-mail, Internet, our Student Information System. Our next step is to use the NETS standards to give us real world examples of how to apply technology skills in the classroom. Once we have the results of our skills survey, we’ll offer 1 hour professional development sessions that are focused on applying technology skills for in the classroom.

It is my opinion that there need to be clear expectations on faculty that they keep up to date on current research on teaching and learning, and within that, there is an expectation that they know what technology is out there to use as a tool to enhance the learning in their classrooms. Our goals of these 1 hour sessions is to give them technology skills and a way to use technology to enhance the learning in their classrooms.

I would love to see how other folks are training and evaluating faculty. My feeling is that evaluation needs to be based upon faculty teaching and student learning. Within this evaluation of teaching and learning, tools such as textbooks, worksheets, technology, etc. are critical as they are tools to enable the best possible learning results for all students.

What do you think of this?

If you have good examples, add them to the School Computing Wiki - Teaching with Technology space.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/11/07/nysais-edtech-2006/

The momentum is here — arvind and I have been discussing how to extend the 2006 NYSAIS Conference for Managers of Technology on our webcast this fall. I’m on the planning committee, and arvind is the blog manager (or blog master as I like to call him:D). With the help of our NYCIST FreeBSD Guru and a donated server, we’ve put up this Drupal site: http://www.nycist.net.

We’re pretty excited as we’re going to live webcast the main sessions of the conference and allow folks to chime in the chat room. We’re also asking that participants use del.icio.us and flickr to post links and photos with the NYSAISEdTech2006 tag. Folks can also blog using the Conference tag (NYSIASEdTech2006) and getting aggregated to our site (right navbar) or New York State area Educators and register and blog at the NYCIST.net web site. How’s that for the read/write web extended conference?

A year ago, I couldn’t webcast and didn’t know what del.icio.us was. Hopefully we’ll bring some of the other folks at this conference along for the ride. Then they can go back and bring their schools along. Very, very exciting.

We’ll be doing our final planning session tomorrow at 1:30pm EST at EdTechTalk.

Have a story you want to share? Something that will help our conference participants learn these new technologies? We’re already using some of the K-12 Online Conference posts to help folks along.

Let the conversation begin continue.

technorati tags:NYSAISEdTech2006, k12online06

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http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/10/25/nycist-meeting-2-about-podca

What follows is a podcast discussion about Podcasting in Education that took place at the NYCIST meeting on October 19, 2006.

2006-10-19-NYCIST

Show Notes:

http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/NYCIST_Data_Collection

http://odeo.com/

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/

http://www.bluemic.com/

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/10/25/k-12-online-conference/

Over the next three weeks, there is an exciting online event happening called the K-12 Online Conference.

Here’s a description:

The “K12 Online Conference” is for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice! This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 and will include a preconference keynote. The conference theme is “Unleashing the Potential.”

The conference is being held via Read/Write web technologies that I posted here. Please take a look at the Conference Pre-Keynote and the Conference Agenda for session details.

This is a first of its type conference for K-12 educators. It is collecting a lot of momentum and is sure to change the way we think of professional development in the future.

http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/10/21/professional-development-mod

Over the summer, I wrote about collaboration and its power to help us learn.  One of the things I have noticed about our faculty laptop program is that the place where real innovation happens is when we have a group of fellows who have similar interests (department, grade level, etc.) have a clear goal and collaborate to achieve this goal.  This year it’s most aparent in our K-3 faculty who have a weekly Tablet user workshop.  This time is spent learning new software, sharing ideas, and discussing how to use them in class.  These faculty are using their tablets as anecdotal recording devices so when it comes to giving students feedback and evaluation (which should be often - even at the lower school level), they have a running record.  By collaborating on this project, they have revived a conversation about the importance of documentation and evaluation, a clear curricular goal.  They are using Microsoft OneNote where they can post inages, text (typed or written), audio and video content. 

A few weeks ago, I was invited to participate in Lesson Study with our Math Department.  Lesson study is a method of teacher professional development, widely used in Japan, where faculty defne a learning goal, define the skills and content required before and after the lesson, design the lesson, observe the lessonbeing taught, collaborating on how to make the lesson better, and thenteach the lesson again to see the results. 

As I sat through the first session last week, my mind jumped to the small groups of laptop teachers with whom I am working.  I thought, “these small groups could tie in to a technology lesson and collaborate to design a lesson that has a curricular goal, but uses technology to enhance it.”  By working as a group, many of the bases that one teacher would miss would be hit.  There is also the support structure to allow faculty to do their lesson for the first time.  Much as the K-3 table group had done.

In Lesson Study, the product is not the point. The learning along the way is the point.  Just as we hope learning in the classroom will be (or at least I do).  To come out with a well designed lesson at the end, but the core participants have gone through the process of thinking about teaching and learning in a very intense way, giving them insight into their own teaching and learning - and the teaching and learning of their students.  Useful information that they can apply in the classroom the next day.  

Activity leads to learning, and that is why writing is so powerful.  I blog because when I think of ideas like these, writing helps to make connections and solidify them.  I think the process of Lesson Study will influence my professional development for the rest of my life.  Thanks to the Math Department for inviting me to participate. 

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http://www.learning-blog.org/2006/09/29/educationbridgesnet-elgg/

I never thought that the EducationBridges.net Elgg would be such an interesting place to visit. It’s almost become my aggregator since I don’t always have the time to open my Flock Aggregator each day. I get an global perspecive on educational technology, and it’s hard to believe that this space is continuing to grow. Here are some quick examples:

John Patten writes, “A teacher sent me an email this morning asking me to look at the logs for his Moodle site. Yesterday he started a forum on his site for the

very first time. He had almost 2000 hits on his site yesterday, in one

day! Granted some of theses hits are the same students going to

different areas in his Moodle site, but that was still pretty

impressive.”

Felicia George writes, “I was frustrated by the inability to get any sound on my computer. I decided to bite the bullet and do some troubleshooting. I followed the directions under the control panel until I reached a point where I didn’t understand what I was doing. Then, I did what I should have

done first. I switched the speakers from the ones on my computer to the ones that I knew worked. Now I have sound.”

and

Beth Ritter-Guth writes: Today was a really productive day. The students in my Honors College English 1 class exploded mentos and diet coke to demonstrate the writing process. We were going for distance. Our chem professor donated goggles. It was

a lot of fun.

… So, what does this all have to do with learning to write? The best

writers are the ones who care about the world they write in

So invite your teachers to check it out. Go to EducationBridges.net and register. Click on Read What Other Folks are Saying to see what’s happening in this space.

Happy Browsing.

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