OCC GATE Fall Conference 2011

From Think Like a Disciplinarian Literature Circles (workshop):   the Michael Wesch Youtube video, "A Vision of Students Today".

From Sagacity (workshop), Team Hoyt (an analogy of great teachers):

From Sagacity (workshop), David Goggins:

From Think Like a Disciplinarian Lit Circles and Think Different=See Different, RSA / Ken Robinson, "Changing Education Paradigms" (workshops):

INFOGRAPHICS PBL (Project-Based Learning)

Four Awesome (& FREE) online tools to aggregate and present research...
a.k.a., how to create INFOGRAPHICS

1. WORDLE--WORD CLOUDS
2. IBM's MANY EYES
3. Google's PUBLIC DATA EXPLORER
4. HOHLI--ONLINE CHARTS BUILDER

A great example,

The premier expert of taking & transforming data into memorable visualizations is Nicholas Felton.
Check out his "Infographics" at feltron.comhttp://feltron.com/

The Hero's Journey...

Here we go again--starting the hero's journey to end our school year.