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by Brian Bridges Here are the last of my notes from the COSN conference last March. John Long is a curriculum integration specialist from Palm Beach, Florida. In Florida, each county serves as a school district. His county/district has 166 schools. To promote technology professional development, they hold an annual district technology conference. His handouts [...]

From the April 25th Education Week comes an article about how teacher unions may understand the power of flat professional development. Entitled “Teachers’ Unions Taking Professional Development Online”, it began, “The nation’s largest teachers’ union plans to put a popular workshop for new teachers online soon, starting what could be a large-scale move into digital [...]

by Brian Bridges I’ve been thinking about the Flat World, ever since reading Thomas Freedman’s book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century.” It’s an excellent look into how the world has changed the past six years. His previous book ” The Lexus and The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization” shows us [...]

  by Brian Bridges It’s day one of CoSN’s annual conference in San Francisco (CoSN is the Consortium of School Networking). During Session One, I was fascinated by David Myers’ description of Michigan’s online learning portal for professional development and by their Education Department’s commitment to extending online learning’s reach. Apparently, they’ve proposed to require [...]

I’ve been thinking about the Flat World, ever since attending Alan November’s CUE 2006 session last March. Thomas Freedman’s book, “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century” is an excellent look into how the world has changed the past six years. His previous book ” The Lexus and The Olive Tree: [...]