YIS IT Department

I’m on all sorts of great mailing lists and this week quite a few great resources popped up in my email and RSS reader. Here are a few I thought YIS teachers would find useful: Top 25 Sites of 2010 Top 10 YouTube channels for education Great Web 2.0 Resources for Students Top Web Tools [...]

category: General    

The Project Based Learning Conference for Students and Educators A New Kind of Conference Tired of going to conferences and just listening all day? Do you wish you could use the tools and create new products for learning? Do you want to have contacts who are ready to collaborate? The NEXT Flat Classroom Conference is [...]

category: Professional Development    

Another fantastic (and free) professional development opportunity begins next week: The Global Education Conference. Time: November 15, 2010 to November 19, 2010 Location: In Elluminate – see website for room details for each session The 2010 Global Education Conference will be held November 15 – 19, 2010, online and free. Details about the conference are [...]

category: Professional Development     tags: globaled10

Short video about the practical advantages of going 1:1 from a student perspective (thanks to Brad for the link!): And another fantastic video describing how one school has integrated QR Codes throughout the campus: Don’t know what QR codes are? Check out this great Educase article: 7 Things You Should Know About QR Codes! More [...]

category: 1:1, Student Voices     tags: 1:1, QR Codes, videos

A fantastic TEDxKC talk by Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropology professor at Kansas State University, about the shift from just knowing things to actually being able to manage information and create something new. Absolutely fantastic summary (in the TED style of the work he has been doing over the least several years). Well worth the 18 [...]

category: Professional Development     tags: tedx, video, wesch