One of the recurring themes in our discussions over the last few weeks is an expressed need for better/more professional development. Check this out and remember that you’re all 21st Century Learners.
One of the recurring themes in our discussions over the last few weeks is an expressed need for better/more professional development. Check this out and remember that you’re all 21st Century Learners.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:38 PM
ok, I love this site and think that I can take advantage of it more this summer, but it seems a little confusing. You have to have a Skype account already and then register for the PD’s in advance. I also didn’t see a list of what PD’s are when. I assume you have to have a skype account to see it. I don’t know, things like this remind me how very little I know about technology.
April 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Wouldn’t you just have to sign-up for the Skype. I glanced at this, and will get back to it, but I have never had a Skype account either—-so just that we don’t know that much about Skype–but later will is a little bit more about technology. I have to take it in in bits and pieces when I have time, and I am sure I will play around with it all much more creatively this summer as well.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:31 PM
This site looked very interesting. The way I am reading it, would you need to join UStream and Skype? Since I am going for a Rank I in Technology, I think I too will look into this more after testing. Right now I just don’t have any time to work with it. I will get back to it though.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Yes, I am a bit bewildered about this site, too. I think one must join Ustream and Skype. Last semester was the first time that I had heard of Skype and it sounded intriguing. Then I learned that the principal at my school regularly uses Skype to communicate with her husband who is a pilot. Just today, some of Oprah’s guests were on via Skype. I feel like I need to learn to use it.
I would like to try one of these PDs, but I need to learn more about Skype. I have a headphone set…
April 5th, 2008 at 9:13 PM
My husband and I use Skype to talk to the in-laws who live as close as Indiana and as far away as Fiji. It’s basically a free conversation through your computer. You need a headset and can even use a web cam which is great for Granma and Papaw to keep up with their always growing grandbabies! It’s a great tool!
April 6th, 2008 at 1:26 PM
This site looks great. I just downloaded Skype last week on my computer at school. I am going to try to find time to go through the site.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:50 PM
I just registered for UStream. I don’t have a Skype account, yet either, but I was able to watch and listen to a PD session. I can see this as being a valuable tool. I, like most of the others who have commented, have little time. I’m thinking or trying to think like a 21st century learner who, if I didn’t have a bunch of stuff that I HAVE to do, could LEARN what I choose to learn from the PD available here. I guess my point is that I see the idea that kids are learning all the time (just as we are) and it would be nice to be able to learn what you find to be valuable. I know I could do this as a teacher…..find PD that is relevant to me. I’m not sure that students would get what they need this way. I know…..”what they need according to who?”