I mentioned it in yesterday’s blog post and realized I hadn’t discussed it before. I had done a presentation on line with Lync and although Lync does do recordings, the presentation was pretty dynamic with questions coming from the participants.…
Our school has our teachers choose a working group that meets every third week of the school year; they choose a topic to look at and then work through a discussion, research and perhaps reach a project. I had the…
Well, I’ve nudged some middle managers forward. While OneNote is the major collaborative space that we use here at School, it’s not the most comfortable working environment for folks groomed on Word, Excel and Powerpoint. We have in the past…
So on Monday morning (Family Day holiday here in Ontario), I ran across the following tweet: @principalspage: Can you teach someone how to teach? And I replied with the cliche @sig225 You can lead a horse to water… Much like any…
I have, of course, been an avid user of technology since I left the crib (much to my mother’s chagrin) so I’ve experimented with a lot of things for a long period of time. Working with our Upper School Director…
Well, there’s been some great outcomes from the Lync PD last week. I had a social group that’s planning dinner events ask how to use Lync so that they can meet without having to be physically together — in the…
I heard this twice yesterday. From two different sides. Both were about venturing into a different space. I have my feet in two distinct camps, that of the IT Department and that of the faculty. And I heard the exact…
One of the adaptations to the schedule that began last year at school was the addition of an hour of “meeting time” available every Wednesday morning. Now, it is often consumed by department meetings, a (incorrectly named) PLN and faculty…