PLN Yourself

Here's a new wiki to help you develop your own personal learning network.

Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) are all about using web tools such as blogs, wiki, twitter, facebook to create connects with others which extend our learning, increases our reflection while enabling us to learn together as part of a global community. PLNs increase our opportunities to ask questions and receive help compared to our normal daily face-to-face interactions.

We are, after all, lifelong learners! Who's in YOUR PLN? Think about how some of the social sites you are now using might be key to your continued professional development!

Benjamin Zander: Amazing!

What is YOUR outlook toward learning? Is learning a joy to you? or is it a chore? What is your attitude toward teaching? This video will make you think (and entertain you, too!)

See my favorite Benjamin Zander video here. (You don't have to like classical music to enjoy this super-teacher and learn from him, too!)

I wish for each of you many "shining eyes" in your future!

What No One Knows Yet...

“We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.” - Margaret Meade

I saw this quote today on one of the blogs I read regularly. How do you prepare to teach in a world where this is true? How do you learn to use technology when it seems to change every day?

Technology: Smaller and Cheaper

There is little doubt that computers are getting smaller and smaller...and they cost less, too! But here's a REALLY small computer: The Mactini!