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A new direction

A new direction. Alice Mercer 2007 Creative Commons License (NC/Attribute). Place de la république, Lille - http://flickr.com/photos/gadl/371210258/ - CC license (NC/Attribute). Narration. This is Alice Mercer, and this is a presentation about my year, in review.

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A new direction

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  1. A new direction Alice Mercer 2007 Creative Commons License (NC/Attribute) Place de la république, Lille - http://flickr.com/photos/gadl/371210258/ - CC license (NC/Attribute)

  2. Narration This is Alice Mercer, and this is a presentation about my year, in review. As the title implies, there were a lot of changes in my life professionally, and some personal, this year.

  3. Event tag cloud New school New position21st Anniversary Blogging students Son’s ASD diagnosisDiscovering edubloggers Web 2.0 tools Creating things Blogging myself Visiting familyNew co-workers edublogs.orgTeacherTubePowerPointMovieMakerAudacity Picassa FlickrVoiceThread RSS Wikispaces Favorite sites/apps

  4. Narration This tag cloud is a graphical representation of the important events in my life. Since a big part of the change in my professional life has to do with online tools, I also did tag cloud of my favorite among those. If I was successful, you will see which were the most important events pretty clearly.

  5. Thoughts take off… Bigger landing... - http://flickr.com/photos/gadl/1892979439/in/set-72057594083902671/ - CC license (NC/Attribute) …leaving the smaller world behind

  6. Narration I’ve fallen in love with “tiny planet” panorama pics. Not enough to make my own yet, but they are eye catching. This one, I hope, conveys the feeling that I have about breaking free of boundaries that has really helped with my creativity this year.

  7. Lies, damned lies, and… Class Blog Stats There are currently 1834 comments on four blogs. A favorite comment: Ashley:The most valuable gift someone gives to someone else is, respect. That is the most valuable gift because you don’t have to like someone to give them respect. Respect would be a good gift to give someone also because if you respect them, they respect you. – 12/18/07 …more randomly assembled statistics A favorite comment:Ken: And then I had an “ah-ha!” moment: I would not grade the English wiki…who was I to tell them that what they were saying was erroneous? I had plenty of assessment already in place. Not like I needed another one!-10/30/2007 My Blog Stats There are currently 222 posts and 372 comments. Paraphrasing Einstein: Not everything that can be measured is important; Not everything that is important can be measured.

  8. Narration This presentation is a submission to contest to graphically represent our year. The next slide is where I use the numbers. The idea was to change how math is taught. I had a different take on this, I wanted to look at a situation where numbers can’t tell the whole story, and only words and narrative will do. This is an important lesson for students to learn (the right tool for the right job), and for us to recognize as the easily quantifiable becomes what’s preferred for teaching.

  9. Narration The top of the slide represents my students blog work. It gives some numbers on how many comments they’ve made. If I had the attendance numbers handy (hey—remember I’m on break) I could have done a quick average on the posts per student, but really what information does that give you? It’s the quality of what they are writing that it important, so the example conveys more than the numbers. To be really meaningful, I’d want a good example, like this, and others in decreasing level of quality, but this is a sample, not my portfolio (come to think of it, I’ll probably add something like this to my portfolio by the end of the school year).

  10. Narration The bottom slide has stats from my own blog where I reflect on my professional practice. The ratio of comments to posts is nice (more comments than posts), and based on those numbers I’m positing pretty regularly. The comment on my blog from Ken brings it home with his self-revelatory observation that more assessment does not tell you more but sometimes leads to less; less learning. I cap it with a paraphrase of a quote from Einstein. It’s all about the words, but in a sense this is about how to arrange the words, which words you use to make your point. This attitude may not be what the sponsors were looking for, but I think teaching skepticism is rarely a bad thing.

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