Technology for Learning

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I’ve developed a draft outline for the K-12 Parent Portal Implementation Guide. The Guide will be developed online at Parent 2.0 Interactive. The major sections of the Guide (in the current draft) are:

Introduction
About School Community
Current State – District and School
Technology Tools Today
Issues
Building the Site
Technical Support
Launching the Site

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When you’re working deeply on a project, you forget sometimes that others are not so aware of the technology you’re using. So I’ve created a video that tries to describe in simple terms a Parent Portal. Hope you find it useful, for yourself and for others.

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Your school district has decided to build an online portal to better connect with parents. What will it do? Will it be better than it is today? Please add your voice by completing the form. You can view the rest of the the online discussion and background at the Parent 2.0 Interactive website.
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Jennifer Jones wrote eloquently about personal learning networks recently in her post The Job of Personal Learning. She pulled me into the post right away by describing the way to a successful personal learning network may be through immersion. I couldn’t agree more. Recently I presented at a conference – my session [...]

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Who better to describe how a school online portal might be used than a parent who is using one!

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I’ve just finished reading Disrupting Class by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson. I loved this book for several reasons:

It’s about technology and learning (my passions).
It brought a perspective from beyond the classroom.
It was grounded in research and data.
It concluded with a call to action that moved [...]

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Another leg of my journey to developing a K-12 Parent Portal is completed. The first compilation of “What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal?” is now posted on the Parent 2.0 wiki. It is a work in progress, as I continue to receive feedback from the blog postings [...]

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@achurches wrote an insightful post titled “One Size Fits All”. He writes about the barriers to teacher creativity due in part to lack of flexibility from school and district administration and a locking down of technology by technical support staff.
I agree.
But teachers need help in working with tech staff. Allanah commented on “One Size Fits [...]

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The Parents as Partners webcast had a very lively conversation tonight about Parents and Web 2.0 tools. So lively that I wanted to capture some of the great ideas while they were fresh in my mind.
Steve Hargadon of Classroom 2.0 was the guest tonight on Lorna Costantini’s hosted webcast. The chatroom was filled [...]

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