An Expat Educator in Asia

This brief post will be one of many that will no doubt be written about the powerful ideas shared at the brilliant Ed Tech Summit held at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong over the weekend. I am hoping that the ideas will go on shaping the thinking of the leaders that came along [...]

Publications – Joan Ganz Cooney Center
The Center has a deep commitment towards dissemination of useful and timely research and policy reports. Working closely with Cooney Center Fellows, national advisors, media scholars and practitioners, the Center will be publishing a regular series of papers examining key issues in the field of digital media and learning.
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Publications – Joan Ganz Cooney Center
The Center has a deep commitment towards dissemination of useful and timely research and policy reports. Working closely with Cooney Center Fellows, national advisors, media scholars and practitioners, the Center will be publishing a regular series of papers examining key issues in the field of digital media and learning.
tags: research, [...]

I know that I am not the only teacher in this town who is genuinely excited about the opportunity presented by the Apple Education Leadership Summit in Hong Kong this weekend. Indeed, if my Twitter network is anything to go by, it seems to have the attention of most of the technology using educators in [...]

Teach Digital: Curriculum by Wes Fryer / FrontPage
A comprehensive listing of presentatons Wes Fryer has shared is included in the right sidebar of this website, and are also listed on www.wesfryer.com/teaching. Links, podcasts, and resources from my most recent presentations and workshops are here. All materials, unless otherwise indicated, are licensed under a Creative Commons [...]

I took a visit to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair yesterday both to inform myself of what was going on in the consumer electronics field that might be of interest to educators and to see if there were sources for some of the things in use in International Schools that were a lot more efficient [...]

I think it is a given that young people are going to connect online. All of the research indicates that young people are flocking to the free online communities like facebook at an unprecedented rate. As educators, parents, concerned citizens, the big question for us all is not “should our kids be online in [...]

In this brief interview, Paul McMahon talks to Jane Harris of Chinese International School in Hong Kong about the World Scratch Day event coming up on May 16th and also about collaboration with other Hong Kong International Schools to spread the word about open-ended projects supported by Web2.0 technologies.
Links for this episode:
Chinese International School of [...]

12 Best Google Keywords for Finding Classroom Resources | Making Teachers Nerdy
I would recommend printing off this list before you begin searching as a quick reference. Goodness, even I have the list close to my computer as I get stumped on playing the Google word game from time to time.
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I remember when I was at a particular school once where we had a number of incidents where staff members sent inappropriate or slightly unprofessional emails using the school email server and it came back to bite them. As a result, we spent a bit of time working on a staff policies. I have shared [...]