Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Elissa Gelleny
Reflection. It’s a thing. I know it’s a thing, but yeesh, it’s really a thing. It’s hard to process that I was a Season 3 participant and now we are on Season 13. And, while I am by no means someone with blogging prowess, as I reflect, the main thing that keeps resurfacing for me […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
ATTENTION: Please note that this blog post was started a week ago… I have had many learning moments over the past week while getting back into blogging, and I have greatly enjoyed the hours I have spent contemplating, researching and generally (or in some cases, specifically) reflecting upon what it means to be a ‘teacher’, where […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
I met with a lot of my co-workers over the past couple of weeks, and …. well that’s where it ended. That’s as far as I got in June… exams hit, summer school came and went, and then the prep for our new year and technology plan roll-out came into my life. As soon […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
It’s the final countdown… One of the tools I’ve latched onto and used with students this year is Symbaloo. I am really enjoying this tool and it’s applications. While my action plan itself is not centered around webmixes as such, I have introduced it to my colleagues as a part of the package I think […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
The end of my second set of Twitter workshops signified another shift in my action plan. This most recent series of workshops focused on advancing the power and usefulness of Twitter via Tweetdeck. I found my attendees were very excited about the layout and the opportunity to customize columns. And while I still have […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
This post should have happened before March Break. Truly. But it didn’t. It also should have happened before Derek’s Twitter chat… But it didn’t. In fact, I actually thought the Twitter chat was tonight, which is why I mad-dashed to my Mother’s house (she’s a good egg, and she has internet, which […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
(AKA My Response to the 3rd F2F Session… Part I) My original draft for my action plan post (which clearly did not make it to the published realm) focused on Twitter. I have been excited about Twitter since my first Twitter chat back in the fall of 2014, and I dove in faster to this […]
Written by Elissa Gelleny
I hit a bit of a bump in the road when I started out on Twitter. And while I still have questions, many of which are silly–such as what really is the difference between the @ and the #–I feel like I can use TweetDeck, attend a Twitter Chat, and sometimes even contribute (if I’m […]
