What is your passion?

iLearn College and Career prep assignment

What are you passionate about? What is important to you?

Students-
Compose a short journal entry about what you are passionate about. Avoid using your name. Use only your initials and class color when posting.

How to do this:
Open a word document
Type your thoughts
Proofread your text
Click the word comment below
Paste your thoughts

It is good practice to first write and save your blog post in a Word document (or google document) so that it can be proofread for spelling, grammar and if the webpage times out, your entire work is not lost. When you post something online, you should put your best


Once you are finished with your posting, feel free to respond to other student posts.

GoAnimate.com: fun by jose.parra


Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!

Educon: My Top Ten (in progress)

This has been an unbelievable weekend. There are some great takeaways

1) They chose us. They believe in what we do.

2) Research is learning- not a paper. Great research resources from an exceptional LMS. http://www.slideshare.net/bentonlibrary

3) All courses at Hudson focus on our own set of core values- we call these our habits of mind.

4) What do I teach? Students. I teach them through my content area.

5) Reflection is not only necessary, but becomes more meaningful when you have an audience of

6) Library Media Specialists (LMS) are seriously powerful people to have within a school and co-teach within a classroom setting to assist with the research process. http://www.findingdulcinea.com/

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10) (To be continued)

Hudson @ Educon

Professional development- evaluating and improving the systematic and intentional practice of what we do. How do we make this meaningful for students?

Hudson is at Educon!!! Join the conversations from home


Check out the #educon stream and watch live at http://educon23.org/live

Live Interview on Monday Jan. 24 - Karen Cator on the National Education Technology Plan

3pm Monday afternoon

The National Education Technology Plan

Live Interview on Monday Jan. 24 - Karen Cator on the National Education Technology Plan
Reposted from SteveHargadon.com

A Tech Guide: Great Resource for Educators

While reading blog postings last evening, I stumbled upon this one from Steve Hargadon www.stevehargadon.com


A tech guide for teachers

http://issuu.com/mzimmer557/docs/tools_for_the_21st_century_teacher?mode=embed&layout=http%3A//skin.issuu.com/v/light/layout.xml

Where we're going

I owe a few more posts to get caught up on where we are.
until then,


Today we met with the research and development team from the iZone. We shared our confidential feelings about the iLearn program here at Hudson, and teachers were very honest.
It is easy to say something is not working. It is easy to abandon it. We know that because we have a lot of resistance to our new ways of instruction.


Of all the suggestions for improvement, I leave there with two enduring thoughts.

1) We have an amazing team of dedicated, devoted, supportive staff members.
One piece of cool feedback that repeated in the discussion is we need more time! The thought was that we spend too much time sorting through our Virtual Learning platforms to design a meaningful lesson.

A follow up was that we WANT to design our own content, or at least be able to modify existing content to fit our needs and compliment what we are doing in the classroom.



- we are wasting time finding what works from what is available
- we wouldn't mind taking even more time per week if we were able to customize it and make it fit our needs.

What I conclude from this is that our struggle is not time. It is that we want to spend our time making something meaningful. Isn't this what we want for our students too?


2) You learn from your environment.
Staff feel supported. Distributive leadership is a huge strength in our school. Staff are frustrated but do not give up hope, and are motivated to continue to learn more.
We have great energy and through all the changes involved to get us where we are, we are making it through.

We have hope-"We know what it can be- it is just not there yet."