Category Archives: Professional

I’ve moved

My new blog is at http://alicebarr.blogspot.com. Thanks!

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Summer Tech 2010

Mike Arsenault, Cathy Wolinsky and I started our summer course for teachers today. Yarmouth teachers will learn and practice expanded uses of technology for teaching and learning. This course will be setup as sessions of discovery tasks, explorations and reflections. … Continue reading

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Counseling in the Digital World

Keeping our kids safe Maine Counseling Association (MeCA) Annual Conference 2011 I hope to have the keynote presentation posted soon. Resources •    Slide 3 Marc Prensky; Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants http://marcprensky.com •    Slide 4 Social Media Count: http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/ •    Slide 8 … Continue reading

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Summer Technology for Teachers

The school district I work in offers a three credit course to teachers each summer with a follow up in the fall. This June we started with 16 teachers. It was a great test run for our Google Education domain. … Continue reading

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Summertime and your Personal Learning Network

Wow! Thanks to everyone who joined Bob, Cheryl, and I on June 2 for the PBS Teacher and Classroom 2.0 Webinar. It was so much fun to see old friends and make some new ones! If, however, you didn’t have … Continue reading

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Using Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture for Staff Development

This post is long overdue, but it’s an important one for me. Last summer, during our technology class, Bob Sprankle told me about the article Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins. … Continue reading

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Shrinking the Technology Gap

Maine Principals’ Association’s Drive In Conference Thursday, March 26, 2009 The Digital Student in the 21st Century Wiki Materials

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Read Educational Leadership this month

Especially if you lead any professional development. The title is Literacy 2.0 and I think just about every article has relevance in our practice. The librarian and I have been looking for some reading to educate teachers on more meaningful … Continue reading

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Top 100 Edu Tweeters

I am honored to be on the list of 100 Edu Tweeters. Thank you to Kelly Sonora and the folks at Online Degree World for including me in their work. Along with some other interesting people to follow, there are … Continue reading

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Week 1 of 2009 and already some amazing learning!

Friday Jan 2: I started at Radio CJOB in Manitoba, CANADA. They carried a live broadcast of Darren Kuropatwa joined by a former student, Marc.  There were call ins by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, Wes Fryer, and Dean Shareski , who, along … Continue reading

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