Comments on: Yes, I will lead! http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/24/yes-i-will-lead/ Educational Technology Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Rundag http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/24/yes-i-will-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-23998 John Rundag Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:41:32 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/03/24/yes-i-will-lead/#comment-23998 I agree with John. There are a lot of people who can learn from your ideas. I know I have learned a lot from you, John Rappold, John Schinker, Alvin and others on my rss feeds and blogroll. I do hope that teachers read your blog and leave comments as well. I know eTech Ohio has an online class on blog and wikis. They should make your blog and the others I have mentioned, "required reading and commenting." I know I struggle with how to reach out to the teachers. They are overworked, underpaid and everyone is pulling at them for training on this and a seminar on that. They don't have time to call parents or even grade papers in the evening for that matter. But, if they just take a few minutes to read a blog post on Moodle, it may change they way they teach and they will begin to find more time for other endeavors. I agree with John. There are a lot of people who can learn from your ideas. I know I have learned a lot from you, John Rappold, John Schinker, Alvin and others on my rss feeds and blogroll. I do hope that teachers read your blog and leave comments as well. I know eTech Ohio has an online class on blog and wikis. They should make your blog and the others I have mentioned, “required reading and commenting.”

I know I struggle with how to reach out to the teachers. They are overworked, underpaid and everyone is pulling at them for training on this and a seminar on that. They don’t have time to call parents or even grade papers in the evening for that matter. But, if they just take a few minutes to read a blog post on Moodle, it may change they way they teach and they will begin to find more time for other endeavors.

]]> By: John Schinker http://ryancollins.org/2008/03/24/yes-i-will-lead/comment-page-1/#comment-23993 John Schinker Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:32:13 +0000 http://ryancollins.org/wp/2008/03/24/yes-i-will-lead/#comment-23993 I think that's an excellent idea. You certainly have a knack for adapting technologies and finding new an innovative ways to use them in an educational context that others might not see. I still don't know how you can be the only tech person in your district, and still have considered and tried out just about every application, technology, and solution I've ever heard of :-) Personally, I struggle with meeting the teachers' needs. I started my blog for them, and yet I rarely post anything that would be useful to the classroom teacher. Maybe I should do something like this for them, too. I think that’s an excellent idea. You certainly have a knack for adapting technologies and finding new an innovative ways to use them in an educational context that others might not see. I still don’t know how you can be the only tech person in your district, and still have considered and tried out just about every application, technology, and solution I’ve ever heard of :-)

Personally, I struggle with meeting the teachers’ needs. I started my blog for them, and yet I rarely post anything that would be useful to the classroom teacher. Maybe I should do something like this for them, too.

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