Apple PD Evaluation for South Island School

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Martian Memories

Or click on this link: http://voicethread.com/share/604984/

Learning From Student Work

What evidence is there that technology is aiding student learning? What can we learn from student work and how can we ensure that ICT is being used effectively to enhance student learning.

• Martian Memories - http://voicethread.com/#e604984
• Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/
• K12 Example http://voicethread.com/library/
• Research on Looking At Student Work http://www.lasw.org/methods.html

Digital Voices

Digital Voices: Leveraging Technology to Improve Reading and Writing

There are many creative and powerful ways to use technology to improve reading and writing skills—listening to and producing podcasts, creating digital stories, and even web publishing. This workshop emphasizes how to best leverage the engaging and creative tools students to teach reading and writing.

New Literacies for New Times

http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/elec_index.asp?HREF=/electronic/rt/2-03_Column/index.html

Mathematics in a 1 to 1 Classroom

Terry Lindenmuth, is an Apple Profesional Development colleague and is also a high school math teacher, shares ideas on  “Technology Infusion” in a High School Mathematics classroom.  The target audience is high school math teachers.  All students in this high school have MacBook laptop computers.  Applications used include: Excel, Sketchpad, Grapher, MathType, iLife and many more. Downloads and additional information related to these mathematics education podcasts available by clicking “math” at:

http://homepage.mac.com/tlindywizdumb/math/index.html

Additional videos to get you started can be seen at: http://homepage.mac.com/tlindywizdumb/math/Grapher_index.htm

Where in the world.....

September 8th - 21st! Where will we be working? taxi, tunnel, trains, ferries, cars, buses and subways:

• Apple Headquarters
• Our apartment/hotel
• Discovery College
• South Island School
• Hong Kong International School

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Preparing to Work With Schools in Hong Kong

Welcome! This blog is set up to support the professional development for schools I will be working with this Fall 2009. The biggest challenge schools seem to face is how to effectively utilize the plethora of technology tools available in support of student learning. No doubt it is complicated.

• IB Programme Model
• Creativity - Sir Ken Robinson
• Old Blooms vs New Blooms
• Apple Learning Interchange
• And for a little humor: Becoming Web 2.0