An Estuary

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I’ve been lost between being really excited for ISTE and really worried/nervous/anxious about ISTE. It wasn’t until this past Tuesday that I actually figured out why I had been feeling like this. 

He said, “I didn’t know that I was allowed to have opinions and thoughts about so many things. I have all these ideas that go through my head and now I know I can think about them and do something about them for myself.” 

Rose getting the camera ready to take pictures (at Johns Hopkins University at Eastern)

Happy Birthday, An Estuary! #OneYear

Those "5 Things You Need to Know About EdTech" posts seem to crop up on Twitter every couple weeks -- Tech isn't the Point of EdTech, EdTech is about Learning, EdTech is Exciting. But for those who've heard and read it all before, here's a completely different take on that headline.

This week we're excited to announce the launch of our "Field Report" series. Each month, we'll be bringing you a free self-directed PD course on Sanderling which you can take to earn a digital badge for your educator profile. These courses are meant to be shared, and teachers in the Sanderling community are welcome to form groups both in the network and in their schools to bring this content alive. Have an opportunity to lead a PD session at school? You are welcome to use our Field Reports to help guide new learning with your colleagues; we only ask that you use Sanderling to document your PD activities so that the entire community can share in your learning. Also, please let us know what kinds of content you would like us to cover. We'd be happy to build future Field Reports around your requests! -- Shelly 

New Sanderling t-shirts have arrived!

Yesterday was a bit of a time-warp as I reached out to the community still subscribed to the retired TeachPaperless blog to let them know we had a new blog happening here. I was happy to see a personal email this morning in my inbox from one of those subscribers who noted, "Good to have you back. So much is changing - certainly teaching paperless isn't such a distant possibility." Truer words have not been spoken.

by Shelly Blake-Plock :: Going well back over a decade ago, Internet-based PD became a thing. And in the critiques of online PD from that time, many of the same challenges that are still around today...

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Our new Hedgehog. #icon

Steve Pines starting up the DC EdTech Demo Fair! #EIDays14

Margaret is happy about v.1.

The Tech for Schools Summit is billed as a chance for teachers to try out edtech products they might incorporate into their classrooms.