Step-by-step instruction maker

Check out

http://www.tildee.com/

it allows you to create step-by-step instructions online, relatively easily. Might be good for outlining a lesson. How might you use it in the classroom???

MOOC Alert: Online learning

http://sites.google.com/site/edumooc/

Even if you don't want to take the online course, you should watch the video "What is a MOOC?"




I'm pretty sure some of the concepts will remind you of our class.

Coaches make great teachers...

At a recent David Brandon talk (for Voices of the Staff), he stated "get better or get worse, we do not have the option of staying the same." Underlying this statement was the notion that everyone else is working to get better, so if you don't work to improve, then by doing nothing you get worse than your peers. That notion, that learning is a necessity even for those at the top of their game is something I have always believed in but could never express as eloquently as he did.

Suddenly, I started to think about organizations that were innovative when they were established, but then stopped growing and changing and soon slipped in comparison to all of their peers. While their peers learned and innovated from their ideas, they stopped....and got "worse".

How can flexible and dynamic processes be built into systems and organizations, so they continue to be leaders in the work?

Tiffany in Node form

http://www.spicynodes.org/a/e120a106ae95fc2b18e5349fa871d024

For ideas on how to use Spicy Nodes in the classroom, see:
http://www.spicynodes.org/what_are_they-teaching_guide.html

Interesting Article on "Teaching" and "Learning"

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2011/06/15/The-Problem-of-Pedagogy-in-a-Web-2.0-Era.aspx?Page=1

The author, Trent Batson, is a leader in the portfolio world for encouraging authentic assessment of student work. He provides a concise definition of the term "pedagogy", that is kind of circular, but may be helpful to some of you, nonetheless.

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