PLC

Online Professional Development

by Mark December 23, 2010 cooperative_learning

Massive Open Online Course, is one model for online professional collaboration and development which might work well.

Why Meetings Matter Less

by Mark November 30, 2010 school_politics

In our newly constructed edu-corporate climate of “collaborative teaming” there will be, at first, too many meetings for any one teacher to have. Time will be better served with an online collaborative component. It will save time, allow people to “process” collaboratively without being face-to-face at a time of their choosing, and it will allow the time spent face-to-face to be well spent and at a higher level.

The Only 2 Management Lessons Needed

by Mark August 31, 2010 school_politics

Afterwards, everyone would be following the rules…

Repost from July 2008 – What I learned about Professional Learning Communities

by Mark August 19, 2010 instruction

A PLC is not a thing. As Heidegger put it, there are “thingly” things and “unthingly” things and a PLC is a very unthingly thing, unless of course you happen to be lucky enough to find yourself in one and then a PLC is everything. I’ve worked for principals who could count the number of [...]

How To Build A Meeting

by Mark May 18, 2010 cooperative_learning

150 or so technology teachers gather once a month for a meeting … an old fashioned, analog, meeting. Announcers announce announcements (which were sent out in email beforehand). Managers manage. Specialists present their specialities. Pointers point at points with pointers. Counterpoints are made. Facsimiles of discussions are had. Askers ask questions. But in the active [...]

Inserting The Editorial Process into Clairvoy

by Mark May 30, 2009 cooperative_learning

Clairvoy (now Traditional Clairvoy) started out as a blog with five teachers giving advise to other teachers who submitted questions. We still get messages from teachers all over the world. We’ve grown to a site with blogs, wikis, forums, articles and file sharing. More than 1000 pages of different content and nearly 800 registered users. We have a new site for teacher research called Education Study Group. However, most of our visitors don’t sign in. People just read.