Today’s podcast, recorded yesterday, is a short recording about Myra and her work with our district library clerks as they learn more about he read/write web. Enjoy.
Links
Myra’s course
The "23 Things " project – which is formally called Learning 2.0
An article about our school district’s Tech Fair (which I don’t mention in the podcast, really, but I’m pretty excited about)
Thank you so much for recognizing Myra in your pod cast, she is the genius goddess of our web two-oh. It is so exciting to be a member of this class and I am learning at a rate that I thought was far gone for the old AARP brain. These 23 things are catapulting me into the next area of technology, one that I find terribly interesting and useful. Thank you for your support and encouragement. LS
Thank you for sharing this Bud. This is a very interesting format. Do you know of any districts that are following this model for their teaching staff? The “discovery” aspect of the course works perfect with web 2.0 learning and could be easily modified as technology changes. I’m going to give some thought to incentives that would help attract staff to stay committed to a course like this for the entire duration. I followed the “23 Things” link and saw they were offering mp3 players to all who completed the course and a chance to win a laptop. Not sure we would be able to do that, but maybe something along the lines of lane change credits?
Shawn,
Forgive the delay in responding. I know this this model has been used lots of different places with lots of different ways of compensating participants. Credit certainly makes sense if it’s what you’ve got to offer.