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Happy Birthday CLmooc

by Sheri Edwards • January 1, 2019 • 2 Comments

Through play and collaboration, we understood the power of ideas shared in ever varied ways according to the best choice of presentation

by Sheri Edwards • January 27, 2018 • 0 Comments

people are friends in spots. ~ George Santayana

by Sheri Edwards • September 13, 2014 • 0 Comments

There’s an exciting thing in the Google World — Google Educator Groups [GEG ] in each state. We’ve even got one in Washington State: GEG WA I just watched the recording of our first virtual meetup, hosted by +Justin…

by Sheri Edwards • January 5, 2014 • 4 Comments

From Susan Spellman-Cann we continue the gift of #ETMOOC and will enjoy an anniversary event complete with chats and Google Hangouts. Join the Post ETMOOC community and the #etmchat . What is ETMOOC… Here is Susan Spellman-Cann‘s explanation in HaikuDeck Created…

by Sheri Edwards • November 28, 2013 • 0 Comments

#nablopomo #nablopomoed Blog A Day 28 Thankfulness… … Thankfulness. Today I’m thankful for time to spend with my family — almost out the door for a wonderful visit — and for time to thank my PLN (most can be found on…

by Sheri Edwards • November 14, 2013 • 0 Comments

#nablopomo #nablopomoed Day 14 The best thing about my PLN is… The best thing about my personal learning network / neighborhood is the relationships. We follow each other on Twitter and in blogs, Google hangout on topics of interest, and join…

by Sheri Edwards • October 1, 2013 • 0 Comments

Why connect? Do you “google” what you don’t know to learn something? Do you connect through a cell phone, texting, Facebook, Google Plus, email, Twitter? If you participate in any two of those questions, you are already connected. But a…

by Sheri Edwards • June 17, 2013 • 8 Comments

Summer (northern hemisphere) Thinking: What Could I Learn? Have you thought of building your PLN (Personal Learning Network)? Have you wondered how you could change your teaching to be more in tune with how kids want to learn today? How…

by Sheri Edwards • June 10, 2013 • 2 Comments

http://flic.kr/p/eCqVpf As always, our Fellowship of the Open Spokes inspires me to reflect on improving the learning and teaching in my classroom. This week’s topic is failure, and that has far-reaching implications for both students and teachers. Please look at…

by Sheri Edwards • June 3, 2013 • 1 Comment

failure.003, a photo by teach.eagle on Flickr. Open Spokes Challenge Topic: Failure “The language we use is important, and so I think it is important that we have these discussions to tease-out what we mean, and as Varena says, create…

by Sheri Edwards • May 11, 2013 • 0 Comments

This week our Open Spokes Fellowship discusses a series of questions. I add but a few ideas to those of my colleagues who are so much wiser than I. Today, I answer thus: How do you reconcile the fact that…

Wandering Wordsmiths; Emerging Experts; Living Learning

Wowser! It’s another day! What else could we do today?

What Else? That’s the question to ask, to be curious, to engage more fully in whatever you are doing.

And, “What Else?” is the question to ask when writing or creating — the thinking behind doing.

What Else? What detail, event, verb, description, structure, feature, etc. could I add to engage my reader in a mind movie, to inspire my reader to question, reflect, argue, and read on?

Which is why it is the question I ask daily, and is the question, when I was teaching for 31 years, that my students asked daily. Even our wiki and blogs were entitled:

This blog shares my own thoughts, my own imperfect, learning journey, as I ask “What Else?” – even in retirement.

I also blog at Ask What Else at WordPress

Thanks for stopping by…

Sheri Edwards

Students today enjoy the connectedness of social networking; it is part of their very being. My goal is to bring my instruction into that cloud to teach the content required in ways that inspire online responsibility and ethics in this new, very public world.

In addition, as I connect with other educators about the emerging issues and pedagogy of connected learning, I reflect here on those issues, pedagogy, and connections that make for a diverse dialogue about what education could be. These are my reflections.

Please remember we are all learning. Neither my words nor those of my students represent our school district, and our words belong to each of us as we strive to become better learners.

We question, we converse, we express, we suggest, we explore. We ask, “What Else?”

I am learning together with my colleagues in my professional learning neighborhood as my students are also learning together as they build their neighborhoods and practice digital citizenship.

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Open Spokes

Happy Birthday CLmooc

by Sheri Edwards • January 1, 2019 • 2 Comments

Doppelgänger Neighborhoods

by Sheri Edwards • January 27, 2018 • 0 Comments

Google Education Groups

by Sheri Edwards • September 13, 2014 • 0 Comments

#etmooc #etmchat Anniversary

by Sheri Edwards • January 5, 2014 • 4 Comments

#nablopomo #nablopomoed #openspokes Day 28 Thankfulness

by Sheri Edwards • November 28, 2013 • 0 Comments

#nablopomo #nablopomoed Best About PLN

by Sheri Edwards • November 14, 2013 • 0 Comments

Connected Educators Are Learners #ce13 #ooe13

by Sheri Edwards • October 1, 2013 • 0 Comments

Intro #clmooc w #openspokes Transformation Reformation #teachtheweb

by Sheri Edwards • June 17, 2013 • 8 Comments

#openspokes on Failure, Video Games, and Course Structure

by Sheri Edwards • June 10, 2013 • 2 Comments

#openspokes challenge: Failure

by Sheri Edwards • June 3, 2013 • 1 Comment

Teaching Today from our pasts #openspokes

by Sheri Edwards • May 11, 2013 • 0 Comments

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