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Member since Sep 22, 2009, follows 3 people, 0 public groups, 12 public bookmarks (16 total).

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  • Persuasive Writing on 2009-10-23
  • byGosh.com - Free illustrated kid's stories, short stories, poems, novels. on 2009-10-02
  • Three Uses of Diigo in the History and Language Arts Classroom | Beyond School on 2009-09-29
    • But just as I’ve had little luck getting students or colleagues to use feed aggregators, I’ve had no better luck getting them to switch on to the power of Diigo. So if you use any of these methods in your own classroom – or use Diigo in any other way with your students – I advise you to build in part of the assessment to be weighted toward demonstrated regular use of the tool. Schooliness is Web 1.0 (if it’s web at all), and our students seem to prefer schooliness over anything new every bit as much as their teachers do. A word to the wise.
    • My students have joined the Group. Now when they go to their web-logs, after logging in to their Diigo account and setting “Show Annotations > Show Group Annotations” on their Diigo toolbar, they will see the highlights of specific passages from their writing that I have left (and I can start students doing this too, it occurs to me in a very attractive flash), and my annotations will pop up on their screen when they hover their mouse over the highlights.
  • Teaching a lesson using diigo – part 2 « Andywhiteway’s Blog on 2009-09-29
    • One thing that’s been fantastically exciting about watching my students interact with diigo is the ease at which they engage with writing about the poems I have asked them to look at.
  • Diigo « Andywhiteway’s Blog on 2009-09-29

    • An evaluation of using Diigo.com with students




      Posted on May 15, 2009 by andywhiteway




      Having used diigo with a class for a period of a few months (and now said class is off on exam leave and unlikely to be using it for a few months), I feel that now is a good time to reflect on how I’ve been using it in a classroom environment over the past [...]

  • What Is a "Professional Learning Community"? // Richard DuFour on 2009-09-28
      • Linda Vanderford

        Linda Vanderford on 2009-09-28

        Perhaps some questions to ask with districts as they begin to form PLCs

    • What are the "big ideas" that represent the core principles of professional learning communities? How do these principles guide schools' efforts to sustain the professional learning community model until it becomes deeply embedded in the culture of the school?
  • Professional Learning Community on 2009-09-28
      • Linda Vanderford

        Linda Vanderford on 2009-09-28

        Might we want to use this definition for the EdTeach mini cadre?

    • The term professional learning community describes a collegial group
      of administrators and school staff who are united in their commitment to student
      learning. They share a vision, work and learn collaboratively, visit and review
      other classrooms, and participate in decision making (Hord, 1997b). The benefits
      to the staff and students include a reduced isolation of teachers, better informed
      and committed teachers, and academic gains for students. Hord (1997b) notes,
      "As an organizational arrangement, the professional learning community is seen
      as a powerful staff-development approach and a potent strategy for school change
      and improvement."
  • Today's Meet on 2009-09-28
  • Welcome to the cadre! | OETC on 2009-09-28

      • Our goal is to identify and disseminate best practices targeting innovative technology integration into teaching and learning, by:


        • providing a forum for networking and collaborative work,
        • internalizing NETS for teachers and students,
        • focusing on exemplary staff development skills,
        • utilizing a professional learning community structure (2009-10 Theme: Social Collaboration),
        • modeling and practicing effective instructional strategies while demonstrating emerging technologies.
  • Shared Personal Practice on 2009-09-28
    • ATTRIBUTE 5: SHARED PERSONAL PRACTICE


      True professional learning community requires openness – opened classroom
      doors, open lesson plan books, open conversation. Review of a teacher's behavior
      by colleagues is the norm in the professional learning community (Louis &
      Kruse, 1995). This practice is not evaluative but is part of the "peers
      helping peers" process.

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