Andrea Hernandez from EdTechWorkshop and SkipZ from Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning both tagged me with the Professional Development Meme that originated from Clif’s Notes .
Directions
Summer can be a great time for professional development. It is an opportunity to learn more about a topic, read a particular work or the works of a particular [...]

Day 13: Write a Blog Post Using Comments
From what I’ve seen so far, during the past two weeks, most of us have expanded our commenting awareness in some amazing ways. We’ve discovered new blogs and are interacting more than we might have in the past, which is one of the great things that happens when [...]

It has been a week? Today is Day 7 and we are to summarize what we have learned about commenting.
We’re on Day 7 of the comment challenge and it’s time to take a little break to see what you’ve learned. So far you’ve audited your own commenting behavior, commented on a new blog, installed a [...]

Day 6: Engage another Commenter in Discussion
Darren Draper on Drape’s Takes blogged about Edublogger Etiquette - Student Blogging. Since I just finished a blogging session with my after school TechClub, I was very interested in the
Darren poses the following questions to his readers:

Must precautions be taken when posting student information to blogs (and/or [...]

photo credit: whizchickenonabun
Thank you to the Comment Challenge, I am discovering so many new and great blogs. One post that caught my eye today was Lame Excuses from Learning in a Flat World. Britt Watwood quotes Mitch Ditkoff on The Idea Champions Weblog’s post The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating [...]

Blogging in and for the educational field is:

not only about posting
not only about leaving and receiving comments
not about promoting your blog on Twitter or other sites
not about getting a high ranking on Technorati

It should be:

all about personal learning
sharing thoughts, ideas, resources
reading
writing
the process
and encouraging others in their learning journey (we are educators after all)

It is only [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]