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I still had a few small details to take care of in my FSL, but I also had some editing to do on the two courses that I was writing this summer. I has been a busy few months! I just sent in my final revisions, so I think we’it’s all done.

It feels kind of strange. This will be my first free time in quite a while. I guess teaching math for only the second time in 16 years will take care of that. School is only a couple of weeks away. I guess I have to start getting ready. Sigh!

With school in mind, I though I would take the time to share some of the resources I used for my courses this summer. They were very useful to me. I hope that somebody reads this (I’ll send an SOS to the world…) and finds some of it as useful as it was to me. Here goes!

• WikiNiMST – This French-language wiki engine, optimized for educational use, was a valuable tool in working back and forth between home and the University.
• Mario tout de go… – Mario Asselin’s experiences in the use of electronic portfolios for both students and teachers.
• Weblogg-ed – Will Richardson’s chronicles of his own experiences in using weblogs in education.
• Weblogs – can they accelerate expertise? – Guy Dickinson writes about the valuable role weblogs can play in the learning process.
• Apple Classroom of Tomorrow – This document is almost ten years old, but my experience has shown me that many teachers are still toward the lower end of the development continuum in terms of their skill and comfort with computers.
• Professional Development in a Technological Age – This document by Cathy Miles Grant is a few years old as well, but it also contains some useful suggestions for PD that are just as valid today.
• Professional Development From Reports to Reality – This document, by Glenn Kleiman and Kirsten Johnson, also looks at the realities of PD and ICT use in schools.
• Communiquer à l’heure d’Internet – Marie-France Laberge writes about the evolution of education and, perhaps, of thinking. (from Vie pédagogique, an educational publication from the government of Québec)
• Computers Make Sense According to Brain Research… But What do Students Think? and FSL teachers and technology: Findings from a national survey – results from a pair of studies by Miles Turnbull and Geoff Lawrence.

I actually have plenty more, but I’ll start with those.
(Boy, it’s nice to be done!)

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