Denver Leigh

Denver Leigh, USA, Educational Technology

With my hat rack in hand, I am a Teacher of Students with Disabilities, district curriculum developer, educational technology workshop creator for professional development, NJ-ASK-6 coordinator, campus yearbook coordinator, and elementary school website coordinator. I am an aspiring writing and soon to be doctoral student in Educational Leadership & Technology. I am passionate about my career, yet the best job I hold full-time is being a mother of three and the wife to my number one fan.

In August 2011, the idea behind iTeach CAFE was born. Beginning as a simple notion to create a new blog, my thoughts grew rapidly and soon I found myself building an entire website worth of ideas! Used as a tool for networking and brainstorming, iTeach CAFE is a think tank. The journey towards earning my Doctorate in Educational Leadership & Technology is scheduled to set course in July 2012. Selfishly, this site is a place where I can consolidate my passion for technology and maintain a record of what information, data, and resources are important to my goals.

iTeach CAFE
In a nutshell:

iTeach CAFE ... a small idea with a lot of purpose.
"i" ... meaning me ... or you ... anyone in education.
Teach ... it's what I do ...what we do ... on so many levels.
CAFE ... Computer Applications For Education

iTeach CAFE is a place where humor and irony concerning educational technology will be welcomed ... and hopefully shared! I value your feedback ... no, scratch that ... I want your feedback! Share with me your experiences, ideas, and strategies. Point me in a new direction, argue my ideas, support my curiosities ... be a part of my goals! I do not believe success is an independent adventure and look forward to embracing a new community of my peers. Thanks for joining my journey!

@iTeachCAFE - Let's tweet!

Theme: educational technology, curriculum, web 2.0, networking

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Billy Meinke

Billy Meinke, USA, Secondary, Higher Education

Graduate student in Educational Technology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Grad Assistant and Instructional Design Assistant for DCDC Group, UH College of Education.

Billy's Blog - Education + Technology
Technology tools and techniques that lead to positive outcomes in education. Weekly posts about topics relevant to many areas of education.

Theme technology, tools, web, design, instruction, resources, social media

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Graham Dickie

Graham Dickie, Scotland, Primary

I have been teaching for 10 years. Currently, I am a headteacher in a small, very small, rural primary school in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland.

That sounds grand until you realise that I am the only full-time teacher in the school! My colleague teaches for a day and a half to allow me time for the never ending paperwork and planning.

I am a dreamer! I see new technologies and dream of ways to use them in teaching & learning. Embedding them in my practice is another matter!

The Highland Headmaster
The Ramblings and Random Jottings of a Highland Heidie. Thoughts on technology, learning, leadership and harebrained ideas.

Theme: rural, small school, multi composite, head teacher, leadership, technology, teaching head, highlands, outdoor learning

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Lora Helvie-Mason

Lora Helvie-Mason, USA, Tertiary

With a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Agricultural Communication and minors in Communication Studies and International Studies, Dr. Mason's journey in education has truly been an interdisciplinary approach. She completed her Master’s degree in Communication Studies from Ball State University in 2003 and graduated with her Ed.D in Adult, Higher, and Community Education with a Cognate in Communication Studies in 2007.

Dr. Helvie-Mason’s research involves the understanding of education as a culture and communication as an avenue to matriculating successfully through that culture. She explores technology and instruction through a communicative lens. Her work has emphasized the marginalized voices within education, including female faculty members, minorities, and inmates. As she teaches communication courses in public speaking, advanced public speaking and debate and argumentation, Dr. Helvie-Mason utilizes a reflective pedagogy which gives the students opportunities to shape and direct their learning experiences.

Communication & Higher Education: Life on the Tenure Track
Exploring life on the tenure-track at a teaching institution, this blog examines communication within higher education including: faculty life, socialization, issues faced by faculty, teaching and pedagogy, and technology in higher education.

Examining strategies for communication within the culture of higher education is increasingly important. This blog candidly explores trends in higher education culture, access, information flow, and faculty life.

Theme: higher education, communication, tenure, faculty, educational technology, pedagogy, instruction

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Kristen Bowers

Kristen Bowers, USA, Secondary, English Language Arts

Before I got into teaching, I naively assumed that teachers would be given all the materials they needed in order to teach the required core curriculum, and that what teachers created themselves was just gravy. Oh, how wrong I was! I was lost my first year, begging and borrowing anything and everything I could get my hands on to help students learn the skills on which they were being tested. I was hired at a school with an established reputation and high scores–I certainly did not want to mess that up as a first year teacher! After struggling with my first year of teaching, never able to find good materials I needed to help my students meet the demands of district and state testing requirements, I decided that I needed to design my own. I spent an entire summer, day after day, creating and writing materials that helped my students learn and appreciate the required core literature, the skills and concepts of the California Content Standards, the grammar, the writing, the vocabulary, quizzes, tests, essay prompts!! Finally, I had created my first Literature Guide.

After using my materials with HUGE success and sharing my success and enthusiasm with my colleagues who wanted to know my secret, I shared and created more for more of literature I had to teach. From there, after recommendations and nudges from my colleagues and family who felt I was on to something, I joined up with my mom (a former teacher herself) and opened an online store with four titles.

Now, with over 35 titles, six years later, blood, sweat, tears, and hours of lost sleep, here we are–Secondary Solutions–The First Solution for the Secondary Teacher!

Secondary Solutions
Ideas, tips, and tools for the middle and high school English Language Arts teacher.

Theme: teaching, english language arts, literature, writing, middle school, high school, lesson plans, language arts, teacher resources

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Vanessa Burns

Vanessa Burns, UK, Secondary, MFL

Head of MFL, AST in a previous 'northern' life, mum, wife, ICT fan, always looking to improve Teaching & Learning and share good practice with others.

MFL down south
After 17 years in Yorkshire, the adventures of a MFL teacher moving down south.

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Theme: MFL, web 2.0, ICT, new technologies, teaching, learning, resources, ideas, creativity

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Velimir Dedić

Velimir Dedić, Serbia, Primary, Tertiary

Professor of Information technology, active in the field of e-learning since 2000. Interest in e-learning satisfaction measurement and improvement. Currently focused on e-learning application in primary school math.

Good (e)learning place
Promoting good research in e-learning.

Theme: e-learning, research, statistics, good practice, satisfaction, math

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Ira Wise

Ira Wise, USA, Cradel to Grave

I am Reform Jewish Educator and blogger in Bridgeport, CT. I do a bit of consulting and teacher training on using web 2.0 in the classroom.

Welcome to the Next Level
A cooperative exploration of where we might take Jewish Education next.

Theme: reform, jewish education, israel, education, social media, technology, research, jewish community, pedagogy, new models, supplementary, complimentary

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