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Connie,
Just want you to know that I'm here. Glad to see this idea coming to fruition.
Jane
Hello, Connie,
Thank you for posting this, for going to the effort to convince Harper's to share. Hmm, might there be a little irony there, don't want to post a link to something that won't generate income. ?
It is a great read. I agree with his t...
Jane, thanks for the note. Your daughter and granddaughter! The image is gorgeous, soft, lovely, comforting.
Hi, Connie,
You inspired me to post these pics, I LOVE all the garden shots that you put up. This photo of the pitcher and peonies viewed twice because of the mirror, include the picture taken minutes after my granddaughter Maggie was born. The yo...
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I'm retired from full time public education teaching, but am involved with professional development of teachers and mentoring new teachers. I also work for an online organization called WIDE world of online learning, that comes out of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero. One of our goals is to continue discussion of the ideas and frameworks, the questions and insights gleaned from the courses offered. Online differs importantly from face to face interaction but it offers us a wonderful way to share ideas with like minded practitioners from across the globe.
- About Me:
- Retired from full time work as a music educator two years ago. Background as a professional classical singer, trained at Manhattan School of Music, performed in New York City venues and small opera companies in Connecticut. Also, did training for Dalcroze Eurhythmics at MSM. Began studying Teaching for Understanding many years ago, attended conferences featuring David Perkins, Howard Gardner and Peter Senge. Involvement with online courses and the Project Zero Summer Institute sealed my fate as a zealot for a new kind of teaching. Live in suburban CT, have one daughter, two grandchildren, a garden and a lot of questions.
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Making online learning more dynamic, visceral and so on
Hello fellow lovers of education,
I love visiting this Fireside Learning blog and reading this and that. As a retired educator now working mostly with adults and mostly online at that, I am wondering how the rather cool, flat and non-visceral medium of cyberspace can be made more dynamic and stimulating. I also have been wondering about how online learning is going to be more a part of secondary and college educational contexts. As many middle class families struggle to afford tuition for privat… Continue
I love visiting this Fireside Learning blog and reading this and that. As a retired educator now working mostly with adults and mostly online at that, I am wondering how the rather cool, flat and non-visceral medium of cyberspace can be made more dynamic and stimulating. I also have been wondering about how online learning is going to be more a part of secondary and college educational contexts. As many middle class families struggle to afford tuition for privat… Continue
Posted on May 4, 2009 at 12:33pm — 12 Comments
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- At 9:49am on October 20, 2009,
Janet Navarro said…
- Hi---I think about you all the time too. I am off to a decent start to the school year / fighting illness is a part of it. I'm happy. I'm trying to figure out next steps, as so many of us are. How are you? What's new in your life and in your thinking?
- At 6:55pm on October 11, 2009,
Gina Stefanini said…
- Hey Jane-
I use my training in most everything I do (teacher a course, working with interns, running an IEP meeting...). I often see 'trainers' being able to support private and public schools in conducting conversations about ed reform and transitions that are happening in their building. I have also seen 'trainings' for teacher leaders though I think that they often go through the organization to get trainers.
gene_thompson-grove@brookline.k12.ma.us
is a trainer and facilitator (she also knows tina). she may know more about what is possible for this work outside of its application.
Personally, I use the strategies, protocols, philosophy in much of what I do now, it has been great for my professional work with colleagues, interns and families.
Hope that helps, gina
- At 2:21pm on June 11, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said… - Hi Jane! Does the DVD have individual files on it? To upload the videos, they have to be individual files, 100 megabytes in size or less. Here is the information about what Ning will let you upload:
"Files must be 100MB or smaller. We support .mov, .mpg, .avi, .3gp and .wmv file formats."
You might find a wider range of formats and/or larger file sizes allowed at YouTube.com - and after something is uploaded to YouTube, it's easy to embed here at Ning.
I don't do a lot of video production myself, so I don't have any special tips - and I'm not quite sure who the video guru would be here at Ning, although Connie might know of someone with a lot of video experience! :-)
- At 9:00am on May 31, 2009,
Anu said… - Great to connect with you here Jane...thanks for the invite!
- At 7:50pm on May 30, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Jane! No need to apologize - every video service works a little bit differently, which makes it all the more confusing - but "embed" is definitely the right word, IF the video service is willing to do that. I don't use the TED website, but I just went there and looked at a video page - they sure don't make it obvious! I clicked on the Share button under the video, though, and that worked!!! When I clicked on the Share button, it popped up a little box that had "embed" code in it, with a COPY button by the embed code. So, I clicked the COPY button, and now I am pasting in the code that I copied here; that seems to be how it works! :-)
- At 12:11pm on May 19, 2009,
Laura Gibbs said…
- Hi Jane, there are so many ways people are using Nings - and you can even create a Ning for just a couple of people to share. My husband, for example, has a Ning with his best friend where they share photographs together. I occasionally look at it, too - but it's really just a space where they share stuff back and forth.
I love telling my students that they can create a Ning for anything they want - a study group for a class, just to take one example.
No Ning can be too big or too small - it's such a flexible system! And Ning doesn't mind if you create a small Ning for a very temporary limited use... to them it really is all the same. The more Nings the merrier as far as they are concerned, which I think is just great!!! :-)
- At 6:48pm on May 18, 2009,
Andrea Allen said… - Thanks Jane for the invite. I will be reading and commenting later on. I will be viewing the link on the link you left about the virtual classroom. Sounds Cool http://www2.surrey.ac.uk
See you in class.
Thanks Andrea
- At 4:31pm on May 12, 2009,
Janet Navarro said…
- Hi Jane,
Great to hear from you. Yes, I will be in Cambridge this summer. I have not figured out yet what I am doing regarding housing. If I don't stay with my brother, I'll be at the John Jeffries house. Here's a link. www.johnjeffrieshouse.com
I think a few others will be there too....it's a great location -- a bit out of cambridge in the old part of boston, just a short T ride away.
I tried to send this via the email feature, but it didn't go...i'll try again and include my phone number, and some additional information
I hope we can have dinner again this summer.
Janet
- At 11:12am on January 23, 2009,
Janet Navarro said…
- Jane,
I was thinking about you on Tuesday, and remembering the wonderful conversation we had at dinner last summer. Have you heard from Faraday? I'm wondering what the mood is in Moscow? I think she might enjoy jumping in and out of Fireside from time to time. Does she know about it?
I hope you had a celebratory day and are now getting back to the work you do with renewed vigor and joy.
- At 1:02pm on September 19, 2008,
Jane Nordli Jessep said…
- Ian,
Nice hearing from you. Regarding Project Zero, I would direct you to google Howard Gardner---you probably know who he is. He was one of the pioneers who started Project Zero, whose researchers basically wanted to find out how cognition is affected by learning in and about the "arts"---a term I have come to loathe as it seems to diminish the enormity of artistic disciplines. If you have never read a Gardner book I think you are in for a treat, though his style is rather dense and academic. Still he is a master of ideas.
I am still excited about going to TED. Oh boy.
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