Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 10, 2012
Would you like to see student projects kicked up a notch and move students more towards inquiry based learning? Looking for ideas to share with other educators. The Library of Congress Teachers Page Build and Deliver professional development section has two activities for inquiry training session. Understanding the inquiry process Participants will work in groups [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 14, 2011
It’s Personal! Transforming Pedagogy with Technology was the theme of this year’s very well attended annual TIES technology conference. As always I came home with new resources and ideas to incorporate in online courses. Web Tools for Grades 4-8 In-Depth Inquiry captured my attention; two teachers shared easy to implement ideas such as using Todaysmeet.com [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: September 26, 2011
” Mary Alice can do the e-newsletter; she has the tech skills; She got us all using Google Docs. “ It’s fun to be recognized for my tech skills and glad to put them to use in many ways. But. . . .it’s all relative! Someone always knows and can do more than us; someone [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: May 30, 2011
One of my first memories of searching the American Memory Collections is discovering a film of the San Francisco earthquake in the Library of Congress Early Motion Pictures Collection. I was amazed the short film existed. Not too long ago I viewed the film while examining a future Library of Congress Teacher’s Page Build & [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: May 2, 2011
A technology integration teacher wrote: I love the Library of Congress resources and have used the American Memory Collections? Where do you suggest start when I plan summer workshop for the teachers in my district? The good news is that the Library of Congress is making it easy for educators to deliver quality professional [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: February 5, 2011
Is there renewed attention to the limited use of technology in the classroom? Just after I shared my concern eSchool News published news of discussions between superintendents and ed-tech directors about how to ensure that technology is integrated in the classroom. The discussions were part of a webinar sponsored by the Consortium for School [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: January 31, 2011
There are lots of wonderful things happening but. . . .the topic that doesn’t go away is concern about the limited number of technology based, authentic learning activities offered to students. The Nov/Dec 2010 issue of EdTechMag (edtechmag.com) from CDWG explains the situation in a brief article about a survey of 1000 teachers and students. [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: January 3, 2011
A new year; a new batch of resolutions about all the new things we will learn about technology and web 2.0. We media specialists seem to do a pretty good job of being hard on ourselves for the things we don’t get done or the things we don’t learn. I’ve been struggling with Dreamweaver .css [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: December 27, 2010
A media specialist had a list titled REAL STAFF DEVELOPMENT stuck to his computer. Hooking up laptop projector Google Docs Scanners Airliners Basic photo editing Managing email Group emails Creating a PDF Accessing resources and stuff right in front of your nose Media specialists, especially building level specialists, are ideally suited to help teachers become [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: August 20, 2010
Mary Ann Bell hit the proverbial nail on the head in her July/August 2010 Belltones column about teacher use of web 2.0. Where are the people who are doing all of the interesting things? Who are they? Media specialists credit (blame) the lack of time, skills and technical restrictions or filtering on the limited web [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: April 23, 2010
Amazing. I have just viewed the Draft of the National Educational Technology Plan. A project I coordinated in 1995 is cited on page 30. A group of teachers and I worked with a history professor and the County Historical Society to create the content about demographic groups in Winona, Minnesota. A local web site [...]
Posted by: Mary Alice Anderson on: March 25, 2008
I’m meeting my original goal–getting my feet wet, picking up some new ideas for online teaching and trying to figure out which options are the most workable both for me and busy adult students. As I explored the 23 Things on a Stick Wiki I noticed the value of transferrable skills and how the editing [...]
