Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
Still thinking about those transferable skills
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: October 13, 2009
I am no longer providing any direct instruction to elementary or middle school students; I miss those opportunities to remind them how they can easily how to use new computer applications just by remembering how they used the same skill in another application. A speaker at a conference listed skills she expects studentes to learn, [...]
The value of transferable skills
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: May 16, 2009
Today I learned how to use SlideShare, one of those web 2.0 tools I had considered but never used until a teacher required about alternative ways to display student work on our school web site. Bingo! Our content mangement system provided simple directions for embedding SlideShare code; Umm. . . that looked just [...]
23 Things #2: Media Center 2.0
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: February 15, 2008
The pace of change accelerates . Abram’s analogy of equating learning something new to exercise is perfect. Find time to exercise and learn! Search iTunes; listen to an informative podcast when you walk. Five minutes into this THING I’ve picked up some ideas. Learning by doing.
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