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Last week I posted Passion and Professional Development: Four Anecdotes, the first part of a chapter I’m writing for a book edited by Mike Lawrence. This post includes three more anecdotes written for the same chapter. Again, I’d be thrilled if some of you find inspiration here – and I’d be grateful for any feedback …
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I’m thrilled to involved with a book edited by Mike Lawrence, and I’m currently working on a chapter about “Passion and Professional Development” – a topic I’ve been excited about for some time (more…). For this chapter, I’m collecting several anecdotes and metaphors that I use in my workshops – and that inspire my work …
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In the online facilitator’s course I’m taking right now I was asked to create a discussion starter for the “break room” forum in my class. I played off of my previous posts on passion and professional development to come up with this, which I thought I’d share here. A passionate student is a learning student. …
I’m currently taking an online class in facilitating online classes. After having been a student online for many years at the beginning of my doctoral program, I’m looking forward to teaching online in the Fall. In the meantime, as a student who has to make discussion posts, I once again have new fodder for blog …
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Here is the fourth of five submissions I made for NECC 2008. This session is the biggest departure from past presentations and workshops I’ve lead, but it’s not entirely new – it’s based on an article I wrote for OnCUE last year. (I blogged the article back in December.) Also, of course, I try to …
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The Pressure on Girls to be Smart…and Hot (Via Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom.) Will’s thinking on the pressures society puts on girls to be both brilliant and “effortlessly hot” lead him to ask questions that can form the basis of a passion-based eduction: How do I help her find those things …
Towards Passion-Based Conversations (Via blog of proximal development.) As I was catching up on reading my feeds (down to 900 unread posts from 2800 yesterday), the title of Konrad Glogowski’s post caught my eye. I read through it and discovered this sentiment, which was exactly what I hoped to find: I enjoy reading the School …
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I wrote the following 300 words for the Spring 2007 edition of the OnCUE Journal, which is available in print and online to CUE members. Sara Armstrong, editor of the OnCUE Journal has been kind enough to grant me permission to reprint this article on my blog. The twelve tips that follow will only appear …
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“Passion Based Learning” (Via Weblogg-ed News: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom.) This comes from a post by Will Richardson (based on something he read of course) and I’m linking to it here merely because I love the phrase, I wanted it to appear as a blog post here too, and I want to be …
Re-igniting Passion (Via elearnspace.) Kathy Sierra: “Apparently ALL of the best teachers kept their teaching fresh and inspiring no matter how many times they had to teach the same damn topic, day after day, year after year.” I like to begin each professional development with a “Welcome Activity.” Following my introduction, I usually offer a …