Karen Greenwood Henke is a professional writer and speaker on emerging technologies and their role in education. She is also the founder of Grant Wrangler, a free grants and awards listing service.
These networks support long tail learning for teachers. It helps teachers find and share expertise on specific areas of interest that they might not find in the same school building or district. Barbara Bray’s eCoach Web site is another great example of this phenomenon. eCoach also offers professional coaching services to help teachers develop their coaching skills or improve their own instructional skills.
I’m moderating a great panel on Wednesday, May 20, on community grant giving. If you missed it, you can download the details here:
Find Funding in Your Own Backyard (Elluminate version)
Date: Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern
Location: in Elluminate at https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.AB55C54F45BC2812068898FDAFFAA3 If you haven’t used Elluminate before, please go to http://www.elluminate.com/support to verify your system configuration to be able to enter the Elluminate “room.”
Why wait for stimulus funds to reach your classroom? Community grants are one of the best resources for teachers to find resources for their classroom. This webcast will provide strategies for finding community grant programs, establishing a relationship with local givers, and best practices for grant applications.
Panelists will include Don Davis, a professional grant writer, and Jen Wagner, a teacher and 5 time winner of the Best Buy Grant. There will be a live Q&A during the last part of this one-hour session.
Is the future of work, long tail workers? Yesterday, I attended the panel, “Workforce Development: A Differentiator in Hiring and Retaining,” at the Milken Institute Global Conference 2009. HR professionals from Cisco, Safeway, Deloitte, Korn/Ferry, and law firm Latham & Watkins all agreed that the downturn in the economy poses particular challenges for HR leaders. Now is a good time to seek out great talent, but companies are constrained by headcount. Several of the companies mentioned that turnover is very low right now; few people are leaving their current positions.
Bette Manchester described the state of Maine’s one laptop per middle school child program as having a “moral purpose” to make sure every student, teacher, and now parents have equity and access to learning. She joined a panel of educational leaders at the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss Infusing Technology into Education for Economic Competitiveness. Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, led a lively discussion that leaned more toward challenges to infusing technology into education than economic competitiveness.
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I joined the fascinating conversation that Steve Hargadon is facilitating on the Future of Education. I often find myself encouraging people to pursue their passions and learn what they love and then I feel this reality tug. What about the stuff that you hate to learn, but when you finally get it, it changes your life? I’ve also talked about this as the tension between creativity and craft.
