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Updated : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:01:13 +0000

Goal 1: Create Your Me Manifesto #30goals
Goal 1 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” ~ Ferdinand Foch “Manifesto: a public declaration of principles and intentions.” via Wikipedia Goal Short-term- Create your Me Manifesto either [...]
Publ.Date : Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:01:02 +0000

Goal #2: Highlight Your Magical Teaching Moment #30goals
Goal 2 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.~ Goethe Goal Short-term- Share with us [...]
Publ.Date : Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:26:32 +0000

Motivating Students to Learn During Breaks: 20+ Tips & Resources
Many believe that learning occurs incidentally. Children will naturally learn by interacting with the world around them even if educators are not in the picture. Sometimes, that is true but I have found that as a facilitator and guide I can help motivate my students to learn in more challenging ways. Let’s face it, many [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:36:00 +0000

11 of ’11 Projects Transforming Education
Adam Simpson, an educator in Turkey, recently challenged bloggers to reflect on and post 11 of their best blog posts of 2011 (11 of 11). Reading several of the blogger’s posts and different takes on it has spurred me to reflect on my past year blogging and collaborating with my passionate/personal learning network (PLN) who [...]
Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:24:12 +0000

Goal #3: Ask a Learner #30goals
Goal 3 of The 30 Goals Challenge 2012! Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! “Great teachers empathize with kids, respect them, and believe that each one has something special that can be built upon.” ~Ann Lieberman Goal Short-term- Ask a learner about [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:51:55 +0000

On the Horizon: 20+ Free Professional Development Opportunities for 2012
Part of the Cool Sites series January is the month when many of us are motivated to accomplish our goals for the year. If you are like me then you may have experienced several years of getting goals accomplished then felt defeated. In April 2009, I joined Twitter and began collaborating and communicating with educators [...]
Publ.Date : Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:10:44 +0000

And Maddest of All to See Education As It Is & Not As It Should Be
The way I tackle life comes from one of my favorite books,  Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote of La Mancha. Briefly, the protagonist of the story, an idealist, is told he is mad and responds, I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger … cruelty beyond belief. [...]
Publ.Date : Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:29:46 +0000

Carrots and…Smaller Carrots? The Values Dilemma! Food for Thought by Patrick Jackson
In Dublin we have an anti-littering campaign with posters that read ‘Litter is disgusting and so are those responsible’.  I’d hazard that the tagline has no effect at all on the littering population who are brazen enough to throw litter on the streets. I doubt any one of them gives a flying fig about what [...]
Publ.Date : Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:26:09 +0000

Reflection, Motivation, and Inspiration
This year many of us will try to accomplish goals with our students and in our personal lives. I think as we approach this process it is important to consider our reflective rituals, how we receive inspiration, and identify what works for us in achieving our goals and what prevents us from achieving our goals. [...]
Publ.Date : Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:22:48 +0000

Happy Holidays from Shelly & Rosco!
This year has been amazing because you have shared with us and inspired us. In April 2009, I began my journey using social media (Twitter, Facebook, Nings, Second Life, blogs, etc.) to develop my passionate/personal learning network (PLN). I was so inspired by my PLN that I sought out to visit you at various conferences and [...]
Publ.Date : Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:16:37 +0000
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