January 2012
4 posts
NWP Teachers Celebrating Their Digital Lives on...
This conversation about #NWP teachers in the National Digital Learning Day continues today (Thursday) 4:00 PM Pacific / 7:00 PM Eastern at NWP Radio - on Blog Talk Radio -http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2012/01/13/advocating-for-your-writing-project-site-looking-ahead What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day #DLDay on February 1,...
National Writing Project teachers talk about their...
What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369 Join us a week before the big day on Teachers Teaching Teachershttp://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt in a conversation with some pretty exciting National Writing Project teachers. Watch the LiveStream of our Hangout and participate in the live chat on...
Invitation to join a special guest on Teachers...
+Deborah Frieze one of the authors of Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net will be joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this week. Let us know if you would like to join the Hangout directly or watch the LiveStream of this event at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt and participate in the live chat with other viewers. All of this on Wednesday, January 18 at 9:00 Eastern USA / 6:00 Pacific...
New Year's Party at Teachers Teaching Teachers -...
Celebrate the New Year with +Chris Sloan @csloan, +monika hardy@monk51295, and +Paul Allison @paulallison in a Hangout on Wednesday, 1.4.12 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times:http://goo.gl/65fmn . Watch the LiveStream and chat with others athttp://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt We love to hear what your plans are for the new semester or year or whatever. What projects are your students...
December 2011
4 posts
daniel sinker: Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of... →
sinker:
It has been exciting to be both a witness to and a participant in the growing movement towards open web development in journalism. 2011 is one of those years that it’s amazing to sit back, here on one of its last days, and look back at just how much has been accomplished.
There was incredible…
Discuss Walk Out Walk On and meet Brian Ingram...
After hearing about a teacher from Ft. Worth, Texas, +Brian Ingram at the end of a couple of recent Best of the Left episodeshttp://www.bestoftheleftpodcast.com we decided to invite him to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this week. Brian is a teacher who recently made a decision to walk out and to walk on into an electoral campaign. The Occupy movement has inspired him to consider a run for...
Walk Out Walk On Part II of an ongoing...
Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt for our second episode on Teachers Teaching Teachers in which we invite the ideas of Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze’s Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net to inspire our conversation! The people listed here will be live on Wednesday, December 14 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times:http://goo.gl/DUKv6. (Listen to or download...
Walk Out Walk On and Occupy Wall Street on...
Here are some threads we will be weaving together on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, 12.7.11 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times http://goo.gl/Dqblo. Join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt . +monika hardy, +Chris Sloan, +Scott Shelhart, and +Paul Allison will be joined by +Mary Ann Reilly, +Ann Leaness, and+Liam O’Donnell to talk about Margaret Wheatley and...
November 2011
5 posts
P2PU, Common Core and Writing, OER and more on...
This week on Teachers Teaching Teachers edtechtalk.com/live-ttt we’ll be continuing our conversations about OER with this amazing cast of wonderful teachers! Join us at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times http://goo.gl/pTvu1 In particular we’d like to learn more about the P2PU course that +Bud Hunt facilitated and +Karen Fasimpaur helped organize: Writing and Common Core:...
Open Educational Resources on Teachers Teaching...
We’d love for you to join us on teachersteachingteachers.org this Wednesday, November 23 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times: goo.gl/fGLws We’ll be meeting on a Google+ Hangout that gets Livestreamed at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt Come learn more about Open Education Resources with these amazing educators! +Paul Oh, +Antero Garcia, +Karen Fasimpaur, and Harry Brake recently...
What spaces do we need for learning? Join us on...
It’s a busy week with conferences and conventions, physical and online going on all over! I’m looking forward to introducing my Assistant Principal, colleague and friend Ron Link to Monika Hardy and Mary Ann Reilly. Ron is cooking up ideas for a new school, and many of his thoughts have seemed parallel to some of what Monika has been talking about at labconnections.blogspot.com Also,...
Join us on TTT tonight - Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011...
Looking forward to meeting up with some of these folks and YOU! Come join Teachers Teaching Teachers in a couple of hours - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 Pm Pacific. We have room in the Hangout tonight. It’s a great night to join us live! You can find the link to the TTT Hangout atedtechtalk.com/live-ttt Come tell us what’s on your mind and what you’ve been working on this year. World...
Zac Chase and Noble Kelly (Education Beyond...
Education Beyond Boarders educationbeyondborders.org on this Week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Please plan to join this group of teachers on http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt on Wednesday, 11.2.11 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. The Teachers Teaching Teachers Google+ Hangout will be broadcast via Livestream and there will be a chat room. (Notice there are a few slots left in the Hangout...
October 2011
6 posts
Teachers new to Youth Voices on this week's TTT -...
More on Youth Voices youthvoices.net and Occupy Education occupyedu.tumblr.com on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. Our guests include: Chris Sloan, Gail Desler, Fred Mindlin, monika hardy, Cynthia Shidner, Fred Haas, Beth Sanders, andPaul Allison Plus+monika hardy abconnections.blogspot.com will be back, recently inspired with conversations and presentations at a conference in NYC!...
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
Teachers Teaching Teachers this week: #OWS Occupy...
Look at this line up! Can’t wait to talk to these folks about how we might all be working together more: Chris Sloan, Chad Sansing, Jose Rodriguez, MaryBeth Hertz, Paul Allison, Sheri Edwards, David Loitz and Jose Luis Vilson. Please join us on edtechtalk.com/live-ttt tomorrow at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific (USA) Global Times: goo.gl/ZOrTY We’ll be talking...
Youth Voices and Occupy Wall Street - How have you...
I’m looking for anybody who has integrated #OccupyWallStreet into their curriculum. What are you doing? Would you be able to join us on this week’s TeachersTeachingTeachers.org webcast that we do in a Google+ Hangout. We’d love to have you on to talk about your students work with Occupy Wall Street. We will be meeting at 9:00 PM Eastern, USA / World Times - http://goo.gl/ZOrTY...
Teachers Teaching Teachers might be wacky and wild...
An exciting cast of innovators will be joining us on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. Come keep it real by listening in and joining us in the chat room at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific - World Times: http://goo.gl/u3le0We’ll be hanging out with: Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Alexander Pappas, Katherine von Jan, Paul Allison, phill...
We invite you to join us Wed., October 5 at 9:00...
Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers tomorrow edtechtalk.com/live-ttt at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific - These 8 teachers will be using a Hangout, and we’ll webcast it using Livestream. There’s room for you! Let me know, and we’ll add you in. Or join us in the chat atedtechtalk.com/live-ttt Wed., 10/5/11 - 9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific. Paul Allison shared a circle with you....
September 2011
5 posts
Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wed....
These eight teachers: Chris Sloan, Margaret Simon, Gail Desler, monika hardy, Valerie Burton, Cynthia Shidner,Paul Allison and Fred Haas (from UT, LA, CA, CO, AK, NY, MA) are planning to hangout tomorrow - Wednesday 9/28 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 8:00 PM Central / 7:00 PM Mountain / 6:00 PM Pacific. Please plan to join us in the chat — and if there’s room in the Hangout too. We’ll be...
Youth Voices planning meeting tonight, 9.21.11 on...
Please join a dozen teachers, from Alaska to California, from Utah to Indiana, from Louisiana to New York, and Maryland to Massachusetts. Teachers of elementary school, middle school, and high school students will be talking about their plans for this fall and how Youth Voices might be a place where their students distribute social media and discuss issues that they are passionate about. ...
Learn more about a quiet revolution on this week's...
If you were to create a space where learning would happen the way it does on the Internet, what would it look like? That’s what Monika Hardy has been thinking about and doing for the last four years. And now she is working with a group of people to produce a book about their work at the Innovation Lab. Monika has begun to co-host Teachers Teaching Teachers over the past several weeks. She...
NWP Radio does it again!
If you haven’t subscribed yet, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio.rss you might have missed this episode of NWP Radio. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2011/09/08/marking-a-moment-teaching-about-911 What an amazing episode this was! I felt proud to recognize the network of work that has grown around Writing Project work, and I was inspired to seek out many resources mentioned on...
Come learn with us on Teachers Teaching Teachers -...
Monika Hardy, Chris Sloan and Paul Allison invite you to come learn with us! Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live at 9 PM Eastern / 8 PM Central / 7 PM Mountain / 6 PM Eastern / World Times. +Jodhbir Singh has been visiting visiting the Lab that +Monika Hardy facilitates. He has a passion to help change education in India where he is from. Monika writes, “We’ve been corresponding for...
August 2011
5 posts
4 tags
Monika Hardy and colleagues will introduce Lab...
For this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers on http://edtechtalk.com/live Monika Hardy @monk51295 has invited some of her colleagues, Thomas Steele-Maley @steelemaley Alexander Pappas @alexpappas Mary Ann Rielly @MaryAnnRielly Amanda Judd @venueX Amy Lewark @fat4thought to join Chris Sloan @csloan and me @paulallison to introduce why we need lab spaces to disrupt and redefine...
NWP/Makes project on Teachers Teaching Teachers 9...
Are you a DIY maker-? Join us at EdTechTalk.com/live in 90 min (9 PM Eastern / 6 PM Pacific) to learn more about the NWP/Makes Project nwpmakes.posterous.com - Learn more about school gardens, technical writing, and finding room for the NWP/Makes students on Youth Voices youthvoices.net . Join +Fred Mindlin, +Christina Cantrill, +Marshall Woody, +Judy Jester and others as we talk about how the DIY...
Join us on Google+
We’re looking to make Hangouts our place to connect this fall on Teachers Teaching Teachers. https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/ngemlink?path=%2F%3Fgpinv%3DoWnEn-UsdUs%3AImwUhpZyEno Here are a couple of examples:http://edtechtalk.com/node/4993 http://edtechtalk.com/node/4990 Posted via email from New Journalism | Comment »
Learn more about Horn of Africa on tonight's...
Anthropology Professor, Peter Little, from Emory University will be joining us at http://edtechtalk.com/live in 2 hours (9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific.) More: https://plus.google.com/113993022447291199374/posts/TgbYFYyo1hV Posted via email from New Journalism | Comment »
July 2011
18 posts
Well damn...
mahmouddualeh:
Reading about the crisis in the Horn of Africa and listening to Nas - Rule. I feel sad now. I knew it was terrible but it’s like, yo I can’t explain it. I am going to think of some way to help on the plane tomorrow, I wanna do something bigger and more meaningful then just simply donating. If anyone has any ideas or is doing something get at me please…
Digital composing and research on Google+
Instead of writing a blog post or instead of adding links to my delicious account I ENGAGED with my questions, did a lot of reading, collecting, thinking… and a bit of writing. I’m composing my thoughts about the famine in the Horn of Africa. Paul Allison - 10:49 PM - Public+Lark Fleming points the way. Getting informed is an important step as well.Lark Fleming originally shared...
“Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, unsigned but apparently by Aaron Swartz, July...”
– Peter Suber, Open Access News
A Whiff of History →
Think of some of your most powerful memories, and there’s likely a smell attached: the aroma of suntan lotion at the beach, the sharpness of freshly mown grass, the floral trail of your mother’s perfume. “Scents are very much linked to memory,” says perfumer Christophe Laudamiel. “They are linked to remembering the past but also learning from experiences.”
But despite its primacy in our lives,...
Movers and changers from the Cooperative Catalyst...
We are looking forward to our conversation about http://coopcatalyst.wordpress.com on Wednesday 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. (See link below for the times.) Chad Sansing will moderate. We want to know more about the overall goals and purposes of the Cooperative Catalyst. We want to get to know each of you and your passions a bit. We will welcome you to use Teachers Teaching Teachers this...
“Google scholar allows anyone to search directly for scientific papers. This is...”
– Guest Blog: Finding good information on the internet
@deangroom and @minecraftTeachr on Teachers...
If you dig Minecraft (or wonder why other teachers do) we invite you to join on on Teachers Teaching Teachers tonight (or later today). We’ve invited a few teachers recently launched Massively Minecraft. http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/MassivelyMinecraft/ If you have any thoughts, questions, wonderings, stories about Minecraft, we invite you to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers at...
“The Deepwater Horizon rig explosion spewed more than 168 million gallons of oil...”
– Island off Alabama coast bursting with birds after Gulf oil spill | MNN - Mother Nature Network
“What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things...”
– Dave Eggers (via writingadvice)
writing advice: William Safire's Fumblerules →
writingadvice:
Remember to never split an infinitive.
A preposition is something never to end a sentence with.
The passive voice should never be used.
Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
Don’t use no double negatives.
Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never…
Join us at http://edtechtalk.com in 45 min - Meet...
Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers to meet Tommy Buteau and learn more about Chad Sansing and the Cooperative Catalyst. Also we’ll invite anybody with a goal, project, or inspiration that they would like to share from ISTE11 to join in the conversation! Join us at http://EdTechTalk.com/live at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific Wednesday July 6 / World Times. Tommy recently wrote me: Paul,...
Chris Lehmann at ISTE
In case you haven’t seen this yet… Chris Lehmann’s keynote at ISTE was encouraging, challenging, thoughtful and inspiring! His conversation with teachers from the Science Leadership Academy on Teachers Teaching Teachers might also be worth your time. Teachers Teaching Teachers 253 Chris Lehmann, Bud Hunt, Diana Laufenberg, Zac Chase, Matt VanKouwenberg, Larissa Pahomov 6.29.11...
June 2011
9 posts
Create Choose Your Own Adventure Videos →
world-shaker:
Exactly what it sounds like, and on YouTube.
Can you even imagine what a cool project this would be?
“My work with hibakusha initiated in me a special interest in survivors in...”
– Robert Jay Lifton, Hiroshima and the World: The Wisdom of Survivors - Voices - Hiroshima Peace Media Center (January 3, 2009)