http://jstearns.org/wp Converstations about Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:29:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week, all 150 participants are invited to contribute media about our week at the Teach the Teachers Collaborative in Ojai. Teachers in grades 4-8, from all over LAUSD, have come to learn how to integrate technology into their science curriculum, mostly using podcasting. In the past, one person was ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/07/20/users-contribute-the-content/ This evening, our group of science educators will be attending the keynote presentation by Dan Schmit, which will kick off our week of engaged learning. Here's the Coveritlive live blog with attached uStream Video. Please join us at 7:00 p.m. PST on Sunday, July 20, 2008 http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/07/20/dan-schmit-keynote-at-teach-the-teachers/ I'm currently developing a course for content developers on using Web 2.0 tools in Moodle. It's important to not get too engrossed in the tools, but rather concentrate on the learning. But the tools make learning interactive and add such a rich environment to the online learning environment. Here are ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/07/12/the-embed-tag/ Today, I attended NECC virtually. I really wanted to be there, but I was glad to be able to connect from home. Thanks to Alice Mercer's CoveritLive , Bud Hunt's Chatterous and Mogulus, Kelly Dumont and Vicki Davis, and Scott Merrick's Ustream, Steve Dembo's EduStream, I was able to listen in ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/06/28/edubloggercon-and-the-bloggers-cafe-at-necc/ 21st Century Learning seems to be a very popular educational buzzword these days. Some people have asked me to define 21st Century learning, and I have to supply a short and very inadequate definition about connected, collaborative, natural learning with passion. It doesn't begin to address the broader definition of ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/06/27/21st-century-learning-live-from-necc-2008/ I was tagged several months ago by Jennifer Wagner on a meme started by Barry Bachenheime based on NPR's This I Believe. I've probably broken all the rules by taking so long to respond, but time just slipped away. I thought it was such a good one that I ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/06/17/what-i-believe/ We've been talking about change in our district office. I'm glad to be part of the conversation. I know that the leaders in my district understand the need for change and are looking for how to go about it. That's why I was so excited to see Chris Lehmann's Twitter post ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/05/28/great-schools-great-learning/ Jeff Utecht, in his post, Schools: Take control or forfeit your profile, points out that many schools carry an online profile, from entries in places like Wikipedia and FaceBook, that needs to be monitored and maintained. Many schools aren't even aware of this online presence, or might dismiss an article ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/05/24/our-online-profile-is-showing/ I got an email today announcing that there is a new Chief Academic Officer in our district. Her name is Dr. Judith Elliott, former Assistant Superintendent for School Support Services in the Long Beach Unified School District and former Chief of Teaching and Learning (what a great title) ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/05/21/new-chief-academic-officer/ Cross-posted at my Newsletter blog at http://ld6.blogspot.com Today is National Teacher's Day. Here's the good news from straight from Google via Mike Lawrence at CUE:   Google Teacher Academy - at the Googleplex Mountain View, CA June 25, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------- Applications Due: May 28, 2008 http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html -------------------------------------------------------- Since today is National Teacher Day, we thought it would be the ... http://jstearns.org/wp/2008/05/06/happy-teachers-day/