
Katrina
As I was on the discussion boards tonight (it's only 10:00pm for me), I got the following message:"The Desire2Learn Hosting Facility is currently unavailable due to regularly scheduled maintenance. The site is down for monthly server maintenance from 1:01AM to 6:59AM. We apologize for the inconvenience.Please try to ac...cess your site again at 7am EST or shortly before. If you have any questions please contact your administrator. " Am I alone in not knowing this would be happening? Now I'll have to wait until tomorrow to do my discussion input.Read More

Dora the Explorer, Wal-Mart, and other analogies Our facilitator just announced the halfway mark of our Building Critical Thinking Skills for Online Research course. Our discussions this week have centered on our very own online search process models...

PBS TeacherLine Our TeacherLine learner blog posts are a great way to learn firsthand about the online professional development experience. Check it out today!
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Our facilitator just announced the halfway mark of our Building Critical Thinking Skills for Online Research course. Our discussions this week have centered on our very own online search process models. ...

Hey everyone! We’re in the middle of week three of the course which means we are more than half way there. I have learned so much, even though I was already familiar with a number of the tools/sites we are discussing. ...

Drivel and the digital morass It is the first day of week 3 of the Building Critical Thinking Skills for Online Research course and I have been working hard to get the session’s work done over the next day or so. ...

Throughout the summer of 2009, we asked users of PBS TeacherLine Peer Connection (our tool designed to assist instructional coaches and mentors search, save, and share high-quality PD resources), to submit questions to an expert in the field of professional development...

PBS TeacherLine
Join PBS Teachers Tuesday, November 10 at 8 p.m. ET for "PBS TeacherLine – A Professional Development Service," with the PBS TeacherLine team.
With high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses, PBS TeacherLine offers teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format tha...t makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. Teachers can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to the classroom.
During the webinar, PBS TeacherLine staff will provide a tour of the site, including information on courses and an additional service for coaches, Peer Connection.
To Join the Webinar, click the link here or below: http://bit.ly/2GEJMj
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With high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses, PBS TeacherLine offers teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format tha...t makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. Teachers can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to the classroom.
During the webinar, PBS TeacherLine staff will provide a tour of the site, including information on courses and an additional service for coaches, Peer Connection.
To Join the Webinar, click the link here or below: http://bit.ly/2GEJMj
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Well, there’s no let-up here. Assignment 1 was due yesterday and we’re already slaving away on the second assignment, which takes us away from our arguments about roles and responsibilities as digital educators (and octopi) to an investigation into search process models. Ou...

As you could probably tell, I was struggling to keep up last week. There was just so much information to read/view and then write responses to. I realize now that was because it was the introduction to everything we were going to be learning...

The Washington Post is putting together its 2009 list of the 20 Best Education Blogs. This year they are asking for people to submit their favorites...

Our guest bloggers have been blogging like gangbusters! Unfortunately, that meant that I had to put the “Ask the Expert” sessions on hold for a bit, but they are back. Th...

PBS TeacherLine Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaking at the Senate Building during the Future of Learning Showcase.

I’m baaacckk! I realized after my last post that I never told you my name. Fortunately, our blog administrator introduced me. Anyway, as you now know, I am Elaine Willis. I had planned on posting again before this, but the first session has been a doozy! ...
















