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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on April 5, 2009 at 5:20pm

I really liked this. It's quick and to the point....

Comment by Nathan Lowell on February 17, 2009 at 12:28pm

Nothing yet, Connie. We're still at the "can we get paid to do this?" stage with the University.

Luckily we're in sync with the Dean's main priority, the College's Mission, and the University Charter ... Now if we can convince them to fund the two positions we need to start this ...

Eventually we'll be offering regular courses in "Technology in the Classroom for the In-Service Teacher" ... I figure we can find a few teachers around Colorado who might take it over the summer. :)

Comment by Connie Weber on February 17, 2009 at 11:40am

I love the video! Standing ovation!
What can we do to help?

Comment by Nathan Lowell on February 16, 2009 at 8:17pm

"....just a way for students to teach..."

Yes. Indeed.

I'm a pretty curmudgeonly individual myself, but I'm not above trying to offer this.

We're aiming at the 6cr teachers need for recertification in this state figuring if we can give them something they want to take, at a price they can afford, on an activity they have to do *anyway* ... well, we may have a chance to begin moving some of this outward.

The challenge is always trying to get beyond the "I don't have time to learn anything! Just tell me what I need to know!"

:)

Comment by Laura Gibbs on February 16, 2009 at 8:05pm

I love the slide where you segue into the need to learn how to LEARN with technology. For all my DEEP cynicism, I am still enough of a Pollyanna to believe that every teacher must, somehow, really be excited about learning (surely it must be... why else would they become teachers...?) So, if they can see how technology furthers their own learning (I'll settle for ANY technology that furthers learning about ANYTHING) then maybe change will start to happen!!!

For what it's worth, one of the places that most deepens my cynicism is a very active listserv of Latin teachers, called LatinTeach - normally a not-very-technological place. But here is good news even from there: someone mentioned this weekend an iPhone App that delivers the Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary (a good thing!) over the iPhone. The excitement was palpable!!! Only one teacher chimed in to say that iPhones should be banned from schools because it is all just a way for students to teach - but everyone else seemed curious, very curious, to learn more about this... and, as I said, this is not a bunch of people normally very curious about learning with technology! :-)