edcamp Philly 2011

I am so excited to announce the second annual edcamp Philly!  It is a day full of learning and making connections with teachers just like you! When: Saturday, May 21stWhere: Jon Huntsman Hall, University of PennsylvaniaCost: FREE! The day is completely unstructured until that morning, when the schedule of sessions is built by the attendees…

What We Can Learn from Peer Pressure

Tonight I heard a great story on Marketplace about using Peer Pressure to affect social change. The interviewee, Tina Rosenberg, explained how some groups, rather than focusing only on education used, essentially, Personal Learning Networks to promote social change. She sums it up below: “…by connecting them to other people, by having them be a…

Why We Should Be Teaching Social Media

When the story of Natalie Monroe, the “Teacher Blogger” broke earlier this year, it rustled a lot of feathers. There were those that stood in firm support of her 1st Amendment rights, there were those that called for her to be fired immediately, and there were those that denounced the idea that teachers should be…

Sometimes It Takes A Few Tries

My 6th graders are in the middle of building wikis about a topic of their choice. It has been a journey of learning how to evaluate sites, how to locate information, how to bookmark sites using Diigo and take notes with the highlighting feature. They have learned how to create a wiki and plan out…