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Professional Development 365: Personalize Your Learning

Posted on October 3, 2014March 9, 2015 by Joan Sharpe in Technology

Digital Collaboration for Learning In this day and age, educators must take responsibility for their own professional growth. Taking time to fully develop your personal learning environment (PLE) and your personal learning network (PLN) is tantamount to attending state conferences, local workshops, and edcamps, and the price is right! How many times have you been asked, … Continue reading Professional Development 365: Personalize Your Learning →

Digital Literacy: Climbing the Ladder, One Rung at a Time

Posted on September 24, 2014September 30, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in Local, Technology

Students at Bertie Early College High School are reluctantly taking the plunge into the blogosphere. We're also asking a few to ditch the old spiral pads and create digital notebooks. Among them are a few kids who can see the benefits of it, and are excited about what it means for their writing. I feel a bit like a dentist in some cases, but there's one young lady who is embracing the idea.

Coaching Success Strategies in Education

Posted on September 20, 2014September 26, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in HOT, Inspiration, Technology

In the immortal words of John "Hannibal" Smith, I love it when a plan comes together! This has been a great week of professional development, dialogue, and discovery for the teachers I serve. The Instructional Technology department decided to "flip" our PD sessions this year. So teachers are being exposed to our presentations early in … Continue reading Coaching Success Strategies in Education →

Students Explode Onto the Blogging Scene!

Posted on September 12, 2014September 12, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in HOT, Technology

We all know it...it's very difficult sometimes to get high school students excited about writing (and almost anything else these days). We proved this week however, that once you give them a voice, add a dash of guidance, and a splash of technology... viola! We've got kids writing like crazy at one high school.

Digital Storytelling: Meaningful Technology in Third Grade

Posted on July 14, 2014August 15, 2015 by Joan Sharpe in Inspiration, Technology

Are we sabotaging our children by classifying them as smart or not? Do we empower them to gain meaningful technology experiences?

5 Things to Say to Someone Who Hates Tech

Posted on July 4, 2014July 4, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in Technology

Home and still reeling from an awesome ten-day conference tour which featured a presentation at NC New Schools, and my first experience at ISTE in Atlanta, it finally is easy being green, Kermit! I had a chance to have lunch with one of my favorite colleagues, an elementary curriculum guru, in my opinion. Our conversation … Continue reading 5 Things to Say to Someone Who Hates Tech →

10 Takeaways From ISTE 2014

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in HOT, Technology

The 2014 ISTE conference in Atlanta GA, was indeed an eye-opening experience. If you're on Twitter, you've probably seen the #ISTE2014 on your feed for the last seven days. I got off the plane ready to take in all of the information, and I boarded the flight home afraid that my brain was going to … Continue reading 10 Takeaways From ISTE 2014 →

PBL Role Descriptions For Beginners

Posted on June 9, 2014September 26, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in Technology

Now that Project Based Learning has taken shape in education, there is one major area of emphasis that must be stressed. Roles and descriptions are vital if PBL is going to work for you. Each team or group that you assemble to carry out a project, has to be assigned specific roles within the team in order to function properly. There is a vast difference between "group work" and "collaborative grouping."

Never Lose Your TechEd Resources Again!

Posted on April 24, 2014May 5, 2014 by Joan Sharpe in Technology

Sharing simple tools for keeping up with endless bookmarks (Diigo), anotating and saving texts for later (Evernote, Clearly), or creating the world's best blogs (WordPress, of course!) can mount up, and it's easy to lose track! So to stay organized, I decided to expand to a web hosting site that I've grown to love: