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Sunday, March 06, 2022
Thursday, October 12, 2017
ACTEM Achieve
I am extremely honored to be with this group!
Congratulations on your selection as one of this year's winners of the ACTEM ACHIEVE award! Your work is a marvelous endorsement of your 21st-century skills of knowing and doing.
ACHIEVE Award winners are professionals who effectively apply available technology now. They move forward utilizing current best practices and cutting-edge approaches. They see students as real people by activating student voice and choice in education. They teach through relationships, inspiring, encouraging and nurturing. These professionals also recognize that further change is necessary, but understand that it is a process for all stakeholders. They realize that teacher and student empowerment is the key element to technology integration. ACHIEVE Educators expect success and motivate through awareness and access to information.
Thursday, October 20, 2016
EdTech Situation Room Episode 26
I so enjoy Wes' wisdom, knowledge, and enthusiasm - he always gets me thinking and I love the questions he asks. And what fun it was to have our peeps Peggy George and Jamie Camp in the audience. Just like the old days! So thanks for this wonderful reunion and let's do it again - soon!
Sunday, October 18, 2015
#ACTEM15 - Part 1
The ACTEM conference was very special for me this year because, along with Cheryl Oakes, I got to present the John Lunt, Friend of Technology award to our dear friend and educator, Bob Sprankle. What a honor to recognize someone who has been such an amazing educator, learner and collaborator. The award was established by ACTEM in 2006 as a way to recognize individuals that have made a significant contribution to education and technology in Maine. This recognition is so well deserved! The theme of the conference was "Power Me" and the program looked a colorful comic book. This turned out to be a great frame of reference for our recognition. As we presented, Kern Kelly not only recorded, but also had the robot Ivan there, with a cape on! Kern's students designed the cape hanger. Bob could watch from home via the live stream, and at the end, he was able to drive the robot and see some of the people who came to see the presentation.
Mr. S! His superpower is Student Scholars!
For those of you have yet to meet Bob Sprankle and want the details, all that information can be found at bobsprankle.com or you can google him and in 43 seconds- faster than a speeding bullet 101,000 hits will be displayed.
Bob Sprankle is a pioneer in the world of education technology. Early on, he understood that student voice and technology were a powerful mix for learning. He is passionate about how technology positively impacts students and learning.
Bob always thought the lines between online and face to face conversations are blurred because meaningful conversation can take place miles apart or face to face. Kern Kelly said “My favorite quote from Bob was when Vicki Davis was speaking at the ACTEM conference and he said how driving with her to the conference that morning, at one point he reached over to turn up the volume to hear her better, suddenly realizing she was actually speaking in the back seat! “
The year Bob co-won the ACTEM teacher of the year, he used his award to purchase audio equipment for podcasting. His students were writing newsletters at the time. Bob wondered if he could make an audio version of those newsletters. Bob saw the opportunity that technology could bring to his students to leverage their learning. He says, “The students just saw that this was part of their work. They had already found purpose to everything they were doing. They had listeners and this was part of learning-people engage with you and carry on the conversation.”
Faster than a speeding nanosecond, the scholars of Room 208 sent breaking news over the airwaves and into homes and classrooms around the world. These third and fourth graders went from being consumers to producers in lightspeed fashion. Technology helped Bob amplify their voices from Wells, Maine to a global audience - something that had never been done before. These students went from being consumers of content to producers of multimedia.
Bob’s teaching style supported putting his students in charge of their learning. He believes that students are superheros perfectly capable of creating, editing and producing. He views them as authentic artists and authors whose work is to be valued and shared to a wide audience. For example, the Superhero Scholars blogged poetry and artwork in a safe space created by Bob. He instituted protocols that are still in use in many classrooms around the world today and oh yes, this was all BEFORE GOOGLE.
This was followed by a reading about the Room 208 Reunion by Bob's daughter Zoe. Then Jody, Bob's wife spoke. I'll have the video as soon as it's ready.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Seedlings Season 6: Hour of Code
Monday, November 04, 2013
SEEDLings Season 6: Honduras
Geek of the Week Links
You can listen to the podcast or subscribe to the bit by bit Podcast Channel
Sunday, October 13, 2013
SEEDlings Season 6: Geek of the Week at #ACTEM13
Our lunch time session is always a highlight of the conference for me. I love to see what people are doing in their classrooms with technology. Here are the links. Thank to @marsenault for being such a great scribe!
If you want to hear more sessions from the conference including Kevin Honeycutt and Dan Russell, Bob will be posting them on his Bit by Bit Blog.
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Sunday, January 06, 2013
SEEDlings Book Talk: Who Owns the Learning?
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Digital Farm
Who Owns the Learning by Alan November
Ed Tech Book Group on Google+
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
2012-9-27 SEEDlings Season 5
Geek of the Week links
Friday, September 21, 2012
You Just Never Know!
Although we interview many people on the SEEDLings shows, we have a special place in our hearts for teachers who are trying new and exciting things with technology. A few years ago, we met Cherrie McInnes through Vicki Davis, Vicki lives in Georgia and Cherrie lives in our own backyard, right here in Maine. Vicki had learned about Cherrie's Grade 3 project Skyping Across the USA and suggested we interview her. Cherrie's third graders were talking to classrooms all over the United States. She researched and found other teachers willing to try using Skype in their classrooms, many of them for the first time. CHerrie's enthusiasm and passion for her work came shining through!
Fast forward to today. Cherrie has visited some of the classrooms she Skyped with, been the finalist for the ACTEM teacher of the year, and Skyped with Michelle Obama. Last week she invited the first lady form Maine, Anne LePage and Barbara Bush, a Maine summer resident, to join her 3rd grades via Skype to kick off the opening of school and their project. There was a big surprise for both Cherrie and the students....
This was first broadcast on local TV, but was picked up by CNN. It is such fun to see Cherrie's continued energy and growth with this project! Way to go Cherrie! Your students are so lucky!
More links:
Bangor Daily News
Fox News
WABI
Bangor Daily News
Fast forward to today. Cherrie has visited some of the classrooms she Skyped with, been the finalist for the ACTEM teacher of the year, and Skyped with Michelle Obama. Last week she invited the first lady form Maine, Anne LePage and Barbara Bush, a Maine summer resident, to join her 3rd grades via Skype to kick off the opening of school and their project. There was a big surprise for both Cherrie and the students....
This was first broadcast on local TV, but was picked up by CNN. It is such fun to see Cherrie's continued energy and growth with this project! Way to go Cherrie! Your students are so lucky!
More links:
Bangor Daily News
Fox News
WABI
Bangor Daily News
Monday, February 20, 2012
2012- 2-13 SEEDlings with Mike Muir
Dr. Mike Muir joins us for a wonderful conversation about school change. He's the Multiple Pathways Leader, Director for the Center for Meaningful and Engaged Learning and Projects4ME
Links from the show:
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
2011.12.12 Seedlings with Homa Tavangar
Growing Up Global: Raising Children to be at Home in the World
Growing Up Global Website
Geek of the Week Links
Podcast and Chat
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Seedlings 2011-11-28 with Adam Bellows
Geek of the Week Links
Podcast
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