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An Odyssey is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as:
1 : a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
2 : an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest
I can’t help but make the association with the above definition of “wandering” ,”changes of fortune” and “quest” with [...]

I received a tweet from Michael Kaechele, Technology Teacher at Valleywood Middle School.

What an opportunity!
Michael and I set the Skype calls up for the following week. I had a meeting with our Judaica teachers to get them involved and Brian, the Social Studies teacher from Michigan, shared a Google Doc with the questions his students [...]

Cross posted on TechLearning Advisor Blog
I believe in sharing. Really I do… I would like to propose a Challenge to Share…for two reasons…
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Sharing is defined on Wikipedia as:
Sharing is the joint use of a resource or space.
Reason 1:
Many in the blogger- and Twittersphere are realizing and [...]

Science and history fairs have been held across the United States (and maybe other countries?) for years. Having grown up in Germany and Argentina, the first time I encountered these events was with my oldest daughter at her elementary school in the 1990s.  According to Wikipedia, Science fairs have been held across the USA since [...]

I created the following video clip, as a follow up to the Connected Learning Possibilities post from yesterday. It is to illustrate the ability we have (through technology) to extend learning, take learning further than and off the pages of a book for our students.

Extend Learning from langwitches on Vimeo.

No questions about it! Twitter has transformed my learning in the last few years. Having a constant stream of ideas, thoughts, resources and experts at my fingertips is invaluable for me these days. I continue to find new ways to make Twitter work for me, but also to contribute to the learning of others.

I want [...]

Technology is not about “replacing” learning nor teaching. Technology is a tool to make learning and teaching possible in ways that it never was before nor that we had ever imagined (Well, maybe Gene Roddenberry from Star Trek had).
I would like to share a small examples of how technology tools can enhance a learning experience [...]

Just a few days ago, Andrea Hernandez (edtechworkshop) and I had a  conversation about our Personal Learning Network.
A “working definition” by David Warlick says that a Personal or Professional Learning Network:
involves an individual’s topic oriented goal, a set of practices or techniques aimed at attracting or organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected for [...]

Cross posted on TechLearning Advisor Blog
Podcasting has been around for a while now. It has also made it’s entry into the world of schools. Teachers of younger students are venturing into the world of digital storytelling in the classroom and are recording their students digitally.
The benefits for students to practice skills such as the following [...]

CSI- Crime Scene Investigation at school!
Third graders find unidentified skeleton on school campus.
What is one to do, when you find such a specimen on school grounds? Students across grade levels took a mini fieldtrip to the pond on campus to examine the skeleton. The BIG question for everyone, including teachers was: WHAT kind of [...]