Category: "Naace2007"
Apr
04
Kate Blacklock, at Education Excellence has emailed me the link to their new Science blog: "Told you science wasn't boring".
It illustrates perfectly the sort of thing I've been talking about. It's a place where the science team at Education Excellenc… more »
Mar
30
Extending the reach of CPD 2
Learning, Teacher CPD, Naace2007, Dissertation Send feedback » 3077 viewsIn my earlier post this week I introduced Jo, a hypothetical (honest!) Primary Music advisor. We saw how she decided that a blog was probably going to be the best way to extend the reach of the CPD that she offers - both geographically and temporally.… more »
Mar
28
I've always, in some form or other been involved with schools. Whether this has been as a teacher or someone who supports teachers. Over the past couple of years I've been working with groups of teacher advisors from around England, exploring ways in whi… more »
Mar
08
Online Teacher Social Networking and CPD
Connectivism, Social Networks, Teacher CPD, Naace2007, Dissertation, Presentations & Workshops 3 feedbacks » 2644 viewsLast week I led a session at the Naace Strategic conference on Social Networking and CPD. Leon Cych very kindly videoed it and then did all the editing etc to get it online.
[blip]Learn4life-OnlineTeacherSocialNetworkingAndCPD684.flv[/blip]
There w… more »
Feb
16
A head of education that gets it...
Schools, Change Management, Teacher CPD, Naace2007, Dissertation 1 feedback » 2391 viewsI've just come across Don Ledingham. He's Head of Education for East Lothian council (that's East of Edinburgh - I've just checked).
The thing that's special about Don as opposed to pretty much every Head or Director of Education (as far as I know), i… more »
Feb
15
Survey Measuring Educators’ Uses of Web 2.0 Tools for Professional Growth
Social Networks, Teacher CPD, Naace2007, Dissertation Send feedback » 2647 viewsI was listening to a podcast from EdTechTalk today (whilst walking the dog - it's my best professional development opportunity!)
The Women of the Web team were getting set to interview Terry Freedman about his new edition of Coming of Age. During the… more »
Feb
14
I've submitted my proposal to Hull, and it's been approved in principle. I'm now reproducing it here, partly so it's in my knowledge base, and partly to get any feedback from the rest of the community.
I'm hoping to be able to tap into the edublogging… more »
Feb
07
Will Richardson always brings something into the mix that makes you think. In this post on the steep unlearning curve that we (as educators - and as society) must undergo, Will describes a number of the things we need to unlearn in order to "see the poss… more »
Feb
05
Warning: these are just notes to help me remember what I'm doing...
One of the tasks I'm going to attempt during this dissertation year is a network analysis of as many edublogger's blogrolls as possible.
This is an outline of the process I'm expecti… more »
Jan
23
Understanding networks: two perspectives...
Learning, Connected Learning Environment, Networks, Social Networks, Teacher CPD, Naace2007 2 feedbacks » 1836 viewsI hadn't planned this, but the two posts I made yesterday:
edublogs: The importance of creating a network
SCoPE: Seminars: Knowing Knowledge
are coming at networks from two different angles, both of which are vital if we're to a) understand… more »
