by Gerald Aungst | Mar 24, 2012 | Education, Networking
I am attending the ASCD annual conference in Philadelphia, and spent yesterday in a day-long pre-conference session by Bobb Darnell about encouraging an environment for high achievement for all students. During the session I learned some new things and...
by Gerald Aungst | May 23, 2011 | Learning, Networking
I spent this past Saturday at edcamp Philly. Edcamp is an unconference: a gathering of professional educators that is deliberately structured differently than your typical professional conference. Instead of a set schedule of presenters and vendors,...
by Gerald Aungst | Jan 31, 2011 | Collaboration, Leadership, Networking
Yesterday, I wrote about two of my big picture takeaways from the first day of Educon. Day 2 indeed continued that pattern. I still heard references to student voice and student passions in every session. And my assumptions continued to be challenged,...
by Gerald Aungst | Sep 18, 2010 | Gifted, Networking
For the fourth post in our series on gifted education we turn to Jeff Agamenoni, who posts as @teacherman79 on Twitter. Though relatively new to gifted education, Jeff’s experience in education and honest perspective on teaching made him a natural choice to...
by Gerald Aungst | Jun 28, 2010 | Design, Learning, Networking, Technology
Two themes are emerging in what I’m learning here at ISTE 2010. These aren’t new ideas by any stretch, even to me. It’s just that they are being driven home in very powerful and deep ways. The world is small and flat. Not precisely in the sense that Thomas...
by Gerald Aungst | Apr 15, 2009 | Networking
Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Social networking, if you believe half of what you read, is a 21st-century, Web 2.0 phenomenon that has exploded onto our culture through our youth. Anyone that was around before the Web was even a 1.0 knows...
