the Rocket City PLN
Debbie Miser – Huntsville City Schools (HCS) staff development coordinator
Leslie Graham - Mentor; Mt. Gap Middle School (MGMS) eighth grade English teacher
Carol Spring – MGMS technology technician
Kristen Robinson – MGMS sixth grade math teacher
Virginia Taylor-Mounts – Grand Canyon University peer
the Experts
Angela Maiers- author of Passion Driven Classroom and Class Habitudes; twitter; Angela Maiers.com
Marc Prensky- “Visionary. Inventor. Author. Speaker. Consultant.Futurist. Learning designer. Game designer” (marcprensky.com, 2011); author of Digital Game-based Learning, Don’t Bother me mom , I’m Learning, Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning; Current; Marc’s blog; Marc Prensky.com
Howard Gardner- Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; author of Truth, Beauty and Goodness Redefined; Five Minds for the Future; editor of Good work: theory and practice; Howard Gardner.com
Marilyn Katzenmeyer- Co-author of Awakening he Sleeping Giant: Helping Teachers Develop as Leaders (3rd edition). She is the president of Professional Development Center, Inc.
the Resources
Promethean Planet.com “Created by teachers, for teachers, Promethean Planet is a unique teaching, sharing and support community—your places to connect, create, and change the classroom!” (prometheanplanet.com, 2011). I also take online classes on the use of ActivInspire software and hardware via Promethean Planet.
PD360.com “This is the world’s first and largest online, on-demand professional development platform for educators” (pd360.com, 2011).
ISTE.org International Society of Technology for Education) “ISTE advances excellence in learning and teaching through innovative and effective uses of technology” (ISTE.com, 2011). Journals that I subscribe to via ISTE include: Journal of Research on Technology in Education and Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education.
Educational Origami wikispaces.com “Educational Origami is a blog and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what” (edorigami.wikispaces.com, 2011).
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.org- “The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development and research” (nctm.org, 2011).
An Apple 4 you resources.com- A website put together by Andrew Bonaparte. The site provides free resources for the 21st century teacher. It includes ActivInspire math flipcharts!
I plan on continuing to learn about how students learn and how technology can tap into the various learning styles for the benefit of creating a student centered learning environment. I am also very interested in learning more about graphic and instructional design principles and apply that knowledge to content development. Thirdly, I am continuing to learn more about content development with the use of ActivInspire software. In fact, I have just enrolled in a Promethean Planet class on the use of ActivExpressions. I plan on attending a curriculum development class this summer hosted by Promethean in Atlanta, Ga.
In short I am interested in the following:
ü Cognitive development
ü Content development
ü Use of ActivInspire software
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