I enjoy using images to share ideas. In a post on my Pair-a-Dimes blog, I shared the ‘Embracing Change’ image, also shared below. As I said in the post: “…we’…
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I shared this post on my 'Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts' blog back in November 2012. I went back to it this weekend and noticed that a considerable amount of the…
“I’ve come to realize that I’m not the only one that wishes I had more capacity to do the things I really want to do as a leader.” I said…
Dear Lone Wolf, It seems odd to speak of lone wolves to you, a person that is so intricately… connected. And yet, as you read on, you will relate to…
This is a post, shared by Heidi Hass Gable, and re-shared here with her permission. True Leaders I gave a job reference a while ago for someone I admire greatly.…
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There are a lot of great educational videos out there. One of the best lists, that I go back to time and again, was built by Alec Couros and it…
On Monday, I read a great post by Ira Socol: Question Everything. I love the Boeing 787 story, and the Guardian newspaper video commercial is one of those self-explanatory examples…
My goal: Create a three minute video that tells its own story, using other videos. My hope is that this will invite further exploration, conversation and learning. Here is what…
Distributed Learning – Any learning that allows instructor, students, and content to be located in different locations so that instruction and learning occur independent of time and place; often used…
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PICK A ‘NO OFFICE DAY’ – SEPTEMBER 12-16th, 2011 At about the same time back in December 2010, Lyn Hilt & I both decided to spend a little more time…
I wasn’t there. In fact, I was almost literally half-way around the world. It happened at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia, and I’m in Dalian, China. The session was called:…
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness…
With permission, I share with you educator Justin Tarte‘s ‘open letter to administrators‘. As he says, “Don’t take this open letter as us trying to tell you how to do…
If you are planning to use the ‘flipped classroom’, then you might want to think about a few key ideas. Background: Here, on Connected Principals, Jonathan Martin has written a…
[Version I: Just the Manifesto] My Open Educator Manifesto ‘We’ educate future citizens of the world Teaching is my professional practice I Share by default I am Open, Transparent, Collaborative,…
For about 2 months now I’ve been ‘out of the loop’. First I was on vacation, then I returned to a newly aggressive filtering of the internet in China. Unrest…
“This creativity aspect is very important because in Finland we believe that risk-taking, creativity and innovation are very, very important for a society like ours. And particularly working in this…
Yesterday was a great day! It was actually initiated Wednesday after school when I had a staff meeting and realized that I’d barely been in classes for more than a…