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Well, this is interesting. I took a look at the book builder a couple days ago, comparing it in my mind to Tar Heel Reader (after all, I am an elementary and sometime spec. ed and esl teacher, accessibility is important!) Book builder is MUCH mor...
4 hours ago
Hello Ian, I have spoken to CAST researchers and instructional design staff a number of times over the past several years. They would welcome such input. In looking at the site, I see that there is an e-mail for contacting CAST, but don't see an...
17 hours ago
Ah - I was wrong, but not very. The system I remembered was flexbooks but the quibbles I raised then still seem relevant to now. Yet, "if by any means I may help the education of some... to parpahrase Paul...
22 hours ago
Well, I'll have another look. I seem to recall trying this system out some time ago, and mentioning with some despondency that it was rather beyond my intuitiv capacity to create a book. I've just revisited the site, and whilst it looks better - ...
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Hi Connie, CAST has done a lot of great stuff. Dr. Rose probably mentioned his involvement in the new edition of the National Ed Tech Plan (CAST announcement here). This is a great milestone for CAST and UDL. I had visited the tech plan's site, ...
yesterday
Thanks, Connie, for sharing these resources and your wonderful enthusiasm! Yeah, Connie's at the Brain Conference!! We get goodies : )
yesterday
Article: "We Feel, Therefore We Learn" --Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Antonio Damasio"Immordino-Yang+Damasio_2007_RelevanceofNeurotoEdu.pdf A must-read. Of paramount importance for educators.
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Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
I teach a mixed 4th and 5th grade in an independent school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Networker, teacher-leader, someone who just loves to get people talking about what really matters to them about education--and what they're learning about learning.

This ning network of reflective practitioners and leaders in education and educational change started in mid-December of 2007. Participants come from all over the world, and share a common wish to discuss and activate our ideals in learning--for everyone, students, teachers, the local community, the world.

This network is designed to further many different formats for collegial sharing. You can post forums or responses to forums; share your blog, join various groups, and share comments with a wide variety of friends. Wecome! Join in.
About Me:
Teacher, upper elementary 30 years. Summer outdoors/nature camp director 25 years. American Teacher Award recipient 1996. Selector/evaluator American Teacher Awards 1997-2006.

Appearances in The Creative Classroom Series by Disney Learning Partnership in collaboration with Project Zero. Participant in Project Zero, summer 2007, Teaching Fellow 2008, Faculty 2009. Faculty member in the newly inaugurated Future of Learning at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Originator, “Fireside Chats,” professional development groups since 2007. Intergenerational Program, kids and elders, 14 years. Soccer coach 20 years. Active participant in several educational networks.

Runner, soccer player, hiker, horse rider, addicted to exercise. Reader, gardener, animal-lover, avid naturalist. Advocate for nature education.

Mother of two teenagers.

Living in a house of too much clutter, piles and piles of books and interesting artifacts. Never able to "throw things away" like my friends can; always seeing a use for things in the future.
Vulnerabilities: all those that come along with being an idealist, also, astonishingly direction-impaired in the real world . (My main technique for finding my way out of the woods or a department store: go back exactly the way I came--)

Not the most fashionable person you know; most comfortable in trailpants, tunics. and vests. Often there are burrs stuck all over my polartech vest.
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Mind, Brain, and Education, Kurt Fischer

Here's an article by the speaker I'm listening to now: Kurt Fischer (from Harvard).

Can the Differences Between Education and Neuroscience be Overcome by Mind, Brain, and Education?

A stunningly meaty article on the rise of a new field. Neuromyths; the history of education's relation to use of science to inform practice; philosophy, epistemology, a transdisciplinary collaborational framework..… Continue

Posted on November 21, 2009 at 4:37pm — 1 Comment

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Here at the Learning and the Brain Conference...

the current speaker, Kenneth S. Kosik, is talking about "The Wikification of Knowledge."

"An External Hard Drive for the Brain

As a neuroscientist who spends time thinking about how people’s brains process information, this technology—and the information overflow it brings—are without a doubt changing the way human beings make decisions. Neuroscientists have increasingly come to understand memory as a fun
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Posted on November 21, 2009 at 3:35pm —

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may be the best speaker on education I've ever heard (and heaven knows I've heard a lot): Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

I'm at the Learning and the Brain Conference in Cambridge. Just want to post this link immediately. I learned of Mary Helen as a study group leader in Harvard Project Zero and Future of Learning last summer. When our group participants would come back from her sessions, there were stars in their eyes. They were dazzled, stunned. It's as if they had been deep sea diving and had just come to the surface, astonished at the worlds they had seen. I wondered, what in the world? Now I know why p… Continue

Posted on November 20, 2009 at 8:00pm —

Connie Weber

The school year taking shape. Pictorial essay.

The first pictures are of the current week's projects, an overview, and then records of a few discussions we've had in class, about the Big Ideas for the year. The rest of the photos are from a project that goes with our group reading of Finn Family Moomintroll, a fantasy by Tove Jansson. The exercise that's shown here is the result of a Project Zero approach, a Thinking Skills Routine called Headlines. How the students loved it!

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Posted on September 22, 2009 at 7:00am —

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At 12:53pm on November 17, 2009, Kevin said…
Hey there palomine! It's been a while and things have been a blur! I'd love to have your kids use ArtSnacks. A class account is probably best. Let's Skype sometime and talk about possibilities. Next week is pretty open for me.
Kevin
At 9:56am on November 17, 2009, Sean Nash said…
Absolutely... thanks for the kind words. In truth, I've been almost too overwhelmed to get to the blog but once every week or two. Share out on other sites like this? Wow... not much.

Thanks again,
;)

Sean
At 9:13am on November 12, 2009, Margaret Weigel said…
Hi, Connie! Looking forward to seeing you next weekend, it should be a good conference. I'll be presenting with my colleague Katie Davis on a look at youth through their various social roles, and how digital media plays a role in each. I could send you the paper, but that would give away the plot. :) But seriously, email me at PZ if you'd like a copy.

cheers, margaret
At 2:37pm on November 5, 2009, Nathan Lowell said…
Well, just the semester off from teaching. I still have a full time job to take care of -- and we're moving heavily into professional development for k-12 these days so it's coming around here as well.

new book is "Captain's Share" ... you can find it on iTunes or at http://podiobooks.com/title/captains-share/

Looks like I may be going into the publishing business in the new year. There's just too much demand for the books in hardcopy that I can't deal with it any more. I'm gonna print them myself.
At 8:26am on November 4, 2009, Nathan Lowell said…
Hi Connie.

Thanks for the message. The semester is almost over and I'll be taking a break from teaching in the Spring I think.

New book came out in September and another one is in the works this month for National Novel Writing Month. Let me get into the Mentorship group and poke about, and I'll ask my students about what they think as well.

Cheers.
At 9:03pm on November 3, 2009, Rachel K said…
Hi Connie,
Thanks for the message. Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I will try to take a more active role in this online community from now on. I'm glad that you are also in Michigan at an independent school. The independent school world is so unique. I love it in many ways, but it's very different than the environment at the public school I attended or the public school that I student taught at. Hope your year is going well, and I will try to come on here every so often.
At 8:29am on November 1, 2009, Or-Tal Kiriati said…
Hmm... I really don't know. It depends on how many people can participate, for instance. I'd choose any of the latest hottest discussion topics we talked about on fireside lately, it will make a good first time, I think. What do you think?
At 5:46am on November 1, 2009, Or-Tal Kiriati said…
Connie, I would love to give it a try. It won't replace a hug... but for now, it's at least something we could do. :-)
At 6:31am on October 25, 2009, Eemah Martha said…
Hello there, thank you for this vision. What a great network :)
At 1:28pm on October 23, 2009, Laura Gibbs said…
Hi Connie, true confession: I find most of the online sites pretty bad, because they are often not really proverb sites - I much prefer the old GoogleBooks online rather than the websites that are out there. One of the grand old books that IS online is Brewer's Phrase and Fable - it's not exactly proverbs, but there is a ton of great stuff in there, proverbs, stories, allusions, etc.
http://www.bartleby.com/81/

Of the proverb websites, the only one I consult regularly is this British site for phrase origins, which is really good!
http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Oh I wish I had more time for all this. I'm plotting a huge proverb experiment this summer... but summer seems so far away!
 
 

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