Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 29th, 2009
Dawn Neely, the principal at James H Hendrix Elementary in Spartanburg, SC wrote a wonderful article for the Carolina TESOL web site about an exchange program with educators from Japan. Read more…. We look forward to working and learning with the James H. Hendrix teachers at our conference on 11/14.
More thoughts for today…
There are many different opinions [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2009
All conference participants will receive a certificate for 8 hours of professional development recertification credit with technology hours included. The certificates will be distributed at the end of the day November 14.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 24th, 2009
In the last year I have had the wonderful opportunity to work and learn with Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs and her team at Curriculum Designers. I have the opportunity to present with Heidi at the Curriculum Designers Regional Conference being held in conjunction with New Jersey ASCD, December 2-4 in New Jersey. In the Curriculum Designers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2009
Last week some teachers that I was working with discovered a wonderful writing tool called Storybird. It takes art work for story books and allows you to write anything you want about the images and art. There is excellent student work already posted there to give you ideas on writing. I see this as an [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 18th, 2009
We are only 8 weeks away from the Southeastern Conference for Literacy in the Digital Classroom on November 14 in Greenville, South Carolina. When you visit this blog you will find that Bill will be sharing a new and fun digital literacy tool on the blog. This weeks resource is a site called XtraNormal. Do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 15th, 2009
Sheskey Learning Solutions is coming up on the one year anniversary of its inception. I hosted, facilitated, and guided over 400 teachers from all around the country in various workshop environments. The quality professional development experience those teachers had proves that educators are hungry for the strategies to make productive connections with their students. In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2009
There needs to be fundamental change in the professional development experiences for teachers. I am designing experiences for teachers to upgrade professional development from “technology integration skills” to “digital literacy skills for the modern world“. Here is why…
The traditional classrooms in American schools were first formed in the 1840’s and if one looks into schools [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2009
The children entering our schools are different than ever before. The well known author, teacher, and game designer Marc Prensky coined the terms “digital native” and “digital immigrant” early in this decade. If veteran educators today can look at themselves as “digital immigrants” and understand that the young people today are “digital natives” it will [...]
