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Friday Recap: packed full of inspiration and freebies

December 17, 2010Kelly Tenkely1 Comment14859 views

This is a SPECIAL Friday because for many of you, it represents the kick off to the holiday season and a little vacation time.

Here is a recap of what I’ve been up to when I haven’t been blogging at iLearn Technology:

Tales 2 Go has a special FREE subscription for teachers happening right now, hurry your buns over there and download it now! All the details are on my other blog iPad Curriculum.
Send Felicity is inspiring imagination and creativity right now, head over for some MAGIC this holiday season (FREE of course 🙂 ). Again, details are on my iPad Curriculum blog. Send Felicity is a must visit even if you don’t have an iDevice, the creativity is available to everyone!
Education Doesn’t Need Any More Nip Tuck: Our Normal Approach is Useless Here a post about re-imagining education on my blog of Dreams of Education.
Hijacked Words is a post about the “Digital Native” and “Digital Immigrant” on my blog Dreams of Education.
Isn’t There Anyone Who Knows What Education is All About? a post on Dreams of Education inspired by A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Don’t forget to check out the FREE ebook that was released this week: The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. This ebook is absolutely packed full of excellent ideas for k-12 (including ELL!). The ebook is not to be missed. If you want to give your colleagues a great gift without breaking the bank, share this ebook with them!
The December issue of Project PLN is out! Be sure to check out these web favorites submitted by educators.
January’s Project PLN topic:
Every new year brings a new commitment to who we are. We set goals to accomplish to make ourselves better people. In education, it is no different. We want to know what your goals are for making education better for you, your students and everyone around you. Education reform is going to continue to be a hot topic, so let’s show the world what teachers are going to do help. Feel free to contact though email projectpln10@gmail.com or Twitter @projectPLN. We would love to have your thoughts ready to share by January 8th. Thanks again for your continued support of Project PLN.We hope you enjoy the holiday season.

Happy Thanksgiving! – Anyone have a Donor’s Choose Project?

November 24, 2010Kelly Tenkely23 Comments4531 views

Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends! For those of you who won’t be celebrating with us in the States, let me assure you that I will eat a piece of pie on your behalf 🙂

This week has been relatively quite on iLearn Technology as I wrap up projects, start some new projects, and get ready for the holiday. Just because I have been quite here doesn’t mean that I have been slacking; here is what I have been up to:

Education and the McRib- a comparison of the McRib sandwich and education on my Dreams of Education blog.
Education doesn’t need any more Nip Tuck: Our Normal Approach is Useless here- a comparison between breast implants and the education system. This was my 2 cents for blog4reform on Monday.
Interview with @ShellTerell on Wetoku about #twitacad and the start of a new school. Thanks Shelly, it is always fun chatting with you!

The Community of Learners Dream Team– my first post on the Cooperative Catalyst blog.
In October, I joined @adambellow of edutecher.net in his Change the world campaign. You can read more about that here: EduTecher Change the World post. I am cheating and calling it a day early so that I can post the results and not have to worry about it tomorrow. From October 1 to today I have had 54,656 absolute unique visitors to iLearn Technology (according to Google Analytics). Truly amazing! That works out to $546.56. Now, like Adam I had to cap my contribution at $400 (teacher who is not employed makes even less than a teacher who is!). I would love to use my contribution to fund some teacher Donor’s Choose projects. If you have a project on Donor’s Choose that you would like funded, please leave a comment below. If I get an overwhelming response, we can put it to a vote. If anyone would like to donate to help reach the $546.56, or would like to match in any way, please leave a comment. Help me to fund projects and dreams that will change students lives and make learning a richer experience!

I am truly thankful for all of my readers, you all encourage me regularly! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

April 15, 2010Kelly TenkelyLeave a Comment3033 views

Today had me thinking about the structure of school and learning, from that thinking evolved the following posts:

On Creating Robots: Standardized Curriculum

Breaking Free of the Factory

What are your thoughts on standardized curriculum and grade levels?

Dreams of Education

March 7, 2010Kelly Tenkely2 Comments2390 views

I have a dream that one day education will look completely different, that passions would be realized and our obsession would be learning. I started a new blog to record my Dreams of Education. Join me, won’t you?