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Quality Staff Development Notes from ASCD resource

Key principles (resources)
NSCD:  http://www.nsdc.org/standards
Reviewing the Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2007033
Goals 2000:  www.ed.gov/G2K/bridge.html
Summary points:

High-quality professional development leads teachers to gain and refine knowledge of both content and pedagogy.
High-quality professional development reflects best practices in teaching and learning, helping adults with varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness learn to work together and [...]

Philly Freedom: Educon and musings about an Iowa version

January 24th and I was not able to swing a f2f trip to Educon. I am pretty bummed out, so I will catch what I can via the streams and posts. It appears to be a small cozy conference. I think Chris thought about 4-500 for their facility, the Science Leadership Academy [...]

Looking back…through the eyes of D. Morsund

From the Oregon Computing Teacher, to  The Computing Teacher, to International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE, Dr. David Morsund has been not only a contributer and collaborator, he has also been a founding father.   His writings can give later generations to educational technology an ability to look through the rabbit hole of the past.   [...]

web based student response system

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23180
I had written to listservs just last month wondering if anyone had an open-source solution to breaking the tie of auto response systems way from the hardware and software.  In this article, while not open-source, it is software/web solution that allows any web enabled device to participate in these instant response type of instructional activity.   [...]

Making IT Happen Award, June 2008 ISTE’s NECC conference

What a great surprise this event was for me.  I’m honored to join Arlene Bothwick, Tim Magner, Mila Fuller, and Kevin Jarret.

A little often unknown fact is that as Conference chair for the first ICUE (Iowa Computer Using Educators) and IASCD (Iowa Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) joint conferece in 1993, we hosted the [...]