My presentation went live yesterday a.m. I’ve already received some positive feedback from some of my Twitter followers/friends, and that’s been nice to hear/read/see, especially given my anxiety over this particular event. I really enjoy presenting my work to the public; in fact, the larger the audience the better for me. However, this form of presentation is completely new to me. Preparing a “packaged” multimedia presentation turned out to be a ton of fun, but a ton of work. As I become more facile with the technology, I imagine I’ll be less anxious doing this sort of “digital storytelling.” And, I can imagine myself doing more and more of this sort of work to integrate into my courses as well.
As I wrote on Twitter, this a.m., I’m finding the K12 Online conference to be like Chanukah only longer. I get new gifts every day; in fact, four new gifts every day for two weeks. And that doesn’t count the fireside chats and other “live”/synchronous aspects of the conference. Speaking of which, I hope you’ll join me and the other presenters from this week at the fireside chat this Saturday, October 25 at 11:00 a.m. EST.
Jon, I really enjoyed your presentation; you mixed it up good, and I loved the graphics and focus changes.
My question about your conclusion: Do you need to include the word ‘technology’ anywhere?
Let me back up. If Willie is not attending integrative team meetings, are there such meetings in his school? Are there in most schools?
Your conclusion that content matters, and the “educator role that integrates leadership and instruction and exists interdependently with school colleagues”. Don’t these apply to all aspects of school?
Going back to the charter issue, (and to an ongoing discussion at Bridging Differences with Diane and Deborah), all of these attempts to change the structure and labor models and funding of schools are really about getting teachers to work together more, to get more research on task, and to bring in the integrative approach that a barista team in a starbucks have, or the systems engineering staff at a Northrop-Grumman project, but not quite so in the average public school.
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I thought your presentation was great! It was informative and well done. I was excited to here mention of TPCK since I am currently doing some research on the topic itself for my graduate degree. Hope you continue getting positive feedback! Thank you for sharing your research with the K- 12 community.
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