We read, learned, and shared a lot last week. Including this great quote from Lincoln. About the internet. Who knew? We are swimming in new acronyms, because we love acronyms in education. SAMR and OER. Those are occupying our time a lot lately. We just learned that Amazon intends to host an OER platform. That might be something. And we ran a workshop with all of our building administrators that started with a very simple slide that said SAMR. We gave them 15 minutes to become SAMR experts, using any tools they’d like. Then they shared resources and learning. A 2-3 minute presentation was the concluding activity. And we had some great ones! The blatant contrast in energy and learning, doing an activity like this, compared to us simply reading from a powerpoint was obvious.
Thanks admins!
Author: Jnelson
Jeff Nelson
Fife School District
Assistant Superintendent:Teaching-Learning-Innovation
40 years as an educator.
16 years teacher
3 years assistant principal
12 years principal
9 years Assistant Superintendent
BA, Washington State University
MAEd, Washington State University
Previous member of AWSP Legislative Committee
Previous member of UW Tacoma PEAB, Administrative Certification
Established and maintained Fife’s first website for 7 years
Present work includes establishing the first Teaching/Learning/Innovation department in the Fife School District. Examples of responsibilities include: teacher/administrator professional development, assessment, TPEP, curriculum/materials review, 24 credit requirement, technology levy leadership, teacher/administrator bargaining.
Initiatives underway in Fife, as a result of new TLI Department: AVID, OER, Curriculum and Materials reviews, Student Perception Pilot with CSTP, Google Expedition
Cofounder of Educational Internet Communications, LLC. Marketed and sold one of the first online grade checking programs in the US. Consulted with Seattle Educational Internet Company for 2 years.
jnelson@fifeschools.com
twitter.com/jeffnelsonTLI
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