Emily Douglas

Emily Douglas, USA, Leadership & Management

Emily Douglas joined Battelle for Kids, a nonprofit that provides strategic counsel and innovative solutions for school districts, state education departments, and nonprofits globally, in 2009. She works with organizations on projects pertaining to comprehensive human capital change management, strategic compensation, process improvement, staffing, strategic planning, workforce development, staff evaluation, and organizational redesign efforts.

In 2013 she was selected by Workforce Magazine from a pool of international HR practitioners under 40 years old, from all industries, as an 'HR Game Changer.'

Emily has her Masters in Labor and Human Resources (MLHR) and her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business and her Bachelor’s degree from Miami University. She has also obtained her Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB) and Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification (SPHR). Recently she completed a certificate from Cornell University pertaining to social media management.

K-12 Talent Manager - currently offline
In this blog Emily Douglas, Human Capital Director at Battelle for Kids, explores effective human capital strategies for recruiting, selecting, developing, and recognizing educators and non-instructional staff in schools to ensure the best learning experience for students.

This blog is hosted by Education Week, the worlds largest K-12 education-focused newspaper. This blog is very different in the education space. As more districts and state agencies in the United States shift their focus to leadership and management of people, as we are seeing other successful ed-focused countries doing, more and more people will have questions about how to recruit, select, place, grown, reward, evaluate, and remove or retain, the right people! The blogs readership and twitter-traction have grown drastically over the past year!

Theme: talent, human resources, human capital, administration, management, leadership, training, recruiting, retention, teacher compensation, policy, leadership, placement, evaluation

James Hoyle

James Hoyle, Spain, Adult, English Language Teaching

James Hoyle, MA Oxon, is the CEO of Go English, based in Barcelona, Spain. He has been teaching English since 1995 and founded the company in 2001. Since 2006 James has been working in the field of blended learning in the corporate sector combining online learning with face-to-face, telephone and online classroom teaching, always keeping the teacher at the centre of the learning experience.

Blend Your Teaching - currently offline
Discussion of innovations in Blended Learning techniques, teaching tips, teacher training and education management.

Theme: blended, ELT, online, collaborative learning, corporate training, corporate learning, LMS, elearning, elearning2.0, emerging technologies, english language teaching, exams, examinations, evaluation, online education

David Simpson

David Simpson, Australia, Secondary, Personal Development

Maths/Science educator, Student Leadership Coordinator and perpetual student. Currently completing a Masters of Education in Leadership & Organisational change. Situated in Melbourne, Australia. I have a gorgeous wife and two blissfully troublesome children.

Learning : Teaching

My reflections and thoughts on Global Education and my development as an educator.

Theme: education, technology, elearning, engagement, explore, explain, evaluate

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Nikitas

Nikitas, Greece, Sociology, Economics, Political Science

First I got a degree in Teaching Academy and afterwards I got a degree in Sociology. For the past 15 years, I have been working in public high schools.

ΖΗΤΕΙΤΑΙ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ ΑΞΙΩΝ
There is where I mostly write reviews and criticism of educational and social news. Other pages on the site include: Tasks - Suggestions, School Events, Articles - Reports - Research, Video and the Electronic Classroom.

Theme: education, social values, public education, school, teaching suggestions, social problems, school problems, school delinquency, bullying, in-school violence, Teachers, training of teachers, School Regulation, students, rating of students, evaluation of teachers, prevention, punishment

Gina Souto

Gina Souto, Portugal, Secondary, Portuguese Literature, French, Languages, Civics, Technology

PD Literature, PD Music (Piano); Teacher/Author (Portuguese, French, Civics);
Trainer/Teacher; Educational e-Evaluator; Expert ICT & curricula; Producer pedagogical web tools; Author e-learning project « Kidzlearn Lugares & Aprendizagens » finalist project « Global Junior Challenge - up to 15 years », 2004; Educational blogs (students), Moodle e-tutor, Conferencist, Researcher.

G-Souto's Blog
Educational articles, chronicles, digital resources, educational personal papers. Digital resources for teachers.

Expert elearningeuropa; Medea Awards Judge 2009, Individual Researcher

Theme: education 2.0, digital natives, technology, creativity, e-teacher, educational e-evaluator, Portuguese literature as a mother language, French as as a foreign language, educational digital resources, elearning 2.0, communities of practice, blended, moodle, 21st century skills, evaluation, videogames at school, web 2.0, trainer teacher, researcher, blogging, edublog, distance education, epedagogy, k-15, innovation, creativity, motivation, digital pioneer

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Nuno Araújo

Nuno Araújo, Portugal, Primary, Secondary, Further, Assessment

PhD researcher studying Educational Assessment in Portugal and Brazil, bringing Assessment for Learning into practice.

Assessment Around the World
To discuss the face of modern Educational Assessment.

Theme: assessment, evaluation, formative assessment, summative assessment, educational research

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Joanna Sanders Bobiash

Joanna Sanders Bobiash, Canada, Elementary Grades 4 to 8

My current assignment is as a 4/5 French Immersion Teacher for Regina Public Schools. I'm also the Teacher responsible for Educational Technology in my school.

My Adventures in Educational Technology
This is a blog to share ways that I've integrated educational technology into my teaching. It is also a blog that allows for reflection and planning through comments and sharing of information and web links.

Theme: edtech, education, english, french, digital storytelling, elementary, video, web 2.0, blogging, writing, wiki, collaboration, evaluation, history, technology, literacy, numeracy

Kristina Schneider

Kristina Schneider, Canada, Organizational, Corporate, Post-Secondary, Adult, Organizational Learning Strategies

Kristina Schneider is an organizational learning and performance technologist, merging instructional and systems technology with knowledge, project and operations management. Currently, she is the Director of Operations at Aviation Strategies International (ASI), a small yet highly reputable Montreal-based aviation management consulting and training firm with an international network of associates and business clientele.

After completing a Master’s degree in Educational Technology, Kristina is now pursuing Doctoral studies in Business Administration at the Université de Sherbrooke, focusing on organizational strategies for knowledge management and transfer as well as professional communities of practice concurrently with her role at ASI.

Kristina’s first book, Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, was published in March 2010 and has already been well received and recommended by the educational technology community. As a recognized expert in her field, Kristina was invited to join the team of contributors at Brandon Hall’s Workplace Learning Today where she will be a member and an active blogger.

She brings to the table over ten years of professional training and development expertise in the areas of instructional design and development for e-learning, blended learning and distance education, organizational learning and professional development strategies, social learning applications, performance technology, knowledge management and transfer, communities of practice and other collective expertise networks.

Technogenii
My space for reflection on learning about learning.

Theme: authority, blended learning, blogging, communities of practice, content, conversation, creativity, creative thinking, credibility, critical thinking, design, efficiency, eLearning, evaluation, ,informal learning, instructional design, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, learning organizations, measurement, models, multimedia, networking, ontology, organizational learning, perceptions, performance, problem-based learning, productivity, professional development, professional networking, self-directed learning, social capital, social learning, social networking, strategy, technology, time management, virtual organizations, visual thinking, web 2.0