note bene: while this post is directly applicable to educational organizations, the strategies may be effectively applied to any organization As schools start back up again, teachers seek ways to “get to know” their students and cultivate a healthy classroom community. Many schools engage in pre-term professional development and other meetings in order to prepare for the new year. Confession: I have never been a fan of meetings, in particular. In fact, in some of my workshops

I had  lovely time keynoting for this event (my first CUE event, actually) December, 2014. I consider this to be a “tweenote”, as mentioned in the talk…it’s an idea that started small, with a tweet, then expanded into a blog post , was refined into an Edutopia blog post,  and finally fashioned into this presentation, complete with over 250 (though you can’t tell from the video) hand-drawn or animated slides. You can see the slide deck here, sans internal vids and my animation

A while back, I wrote a brainstorm post about rethinking one’s course environment (be it digital, traditional, or blended): The Café, Studio , and Stage. Over the summer I was asked by Edutopia, one of my favourite go-to education sites, to compose a blog post for them on the same topic. You can find “Left-Bank Learning: When “Work Time” becomes “Studio Time” here. (includes a handy-dandy list of 6 hyperlinked tips. In December I’ll be kicking off CUE’s E-Learning Strategies