The Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 Global Forum ~ The experience of a lifetime!

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Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum 2011

E PLURIBUS UNUM…Out of many, ONE!

I am struggling on how to begin this blog post. How can I describe in prose how phenomenal, inspirational, motivational and unbelievable this past week was at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum that was held in Washington, D.C. November 6-11, 2011 was?

The week was filled to the brim with meeting/sharing/learning/networking with educators from across the globe! Diversity has a whole new meaning and appreciation for me! I have experienced how exponentially rich diversity can be in all the conversations I have had with these extraordinary educators and administrators!

The keynote speakers’ messages called to me to review and reflect on what I do in the classroom, to not only reach my students, but to provide opportunities for my students to reach out into their world beyond the classroom.

Sessions of brainstorming with my Learning Excursion (Natural History #4) group became richer every day as we got to know each other better and become one in mission! I am looking forward to creating a learning activity that will be used by the educators of the 2011 Global Forum and the educators to whom they share our learning activities with in their schools.

My History Video Podcasts and QR Codes project did not win one of the 18 awards however Team USA won three first-place awards in three categories of the six categories of the Forum. Many of my new teacher friends won with their impressive projects! It was a tremendous feeling to see my teammates and new international friends receive the recognition they truly deserved! A super congratulations to Lui Silva from Portugal, one of my Learning Excursion team members who won second place with his second graders’ project! Wow….collaboration and social responsibility with students around the world focused on ecological issues at a second grade level! How ready for their world they will be with this type of educational foundation offered to them by their teacher! Bravo Lui!

I plan to blog about the incredible international projects that I learned of during the Global Forum to share with educators the privilege I enjoyed during the last week.  I have made so many new friendships with teachers from all over the world which are probably my most valuable outcomes of the week! Learning and sharing with them when their educational philosophies are so “open” in their countries was a great motivator for me. I believe a lot of what we don’t do in American education is bound by our sense of “fear”.

Also, learning more about the Shout program where students collaborate collectively on global issues towards finding solutions for a better tomorrow has given me some ideas of what I can do in the classroom to get my students involved in learning about the environmental issues with students outside their classroom walls, cultivating a sense of social responsibility and real-world problem-solving in order to make a difference for a safer and healthier tomorrow.

Here are some links where you can find out about the winners and get a feeling of what the Global Forum was about through pictures:

Winners   ▪    Videos   ▪    Photos

Team USA with U.S.Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

Team USA with U.S.Secretary of Education Arne Duncan

My  Top Ten Moments:

  1. One dialog I must share is I sat with two principals, one from Finland and one from Singapore at the Open Reception. I asked them what their countries do differently in education in that their countries are always on top in the PISA scores. Their answers almost articulated in unison? Teacher Investment!
  2. It was exhilarating having conversations with teachers who do not talk English with my translation apps on my smartphone. When there is a will, there is a way…usually a technological way that is! By the end of the week, listening to the melody, emotion and sincere effort of struggling English speakers was music to my ears. :)
  3. Getting to know my Team USA teammates better during our incredible week! I was a part of an outstanding group of educators! I am truly blessed!!!
  4. Team USA’s time and presentations to Mr. Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
  5. Our regional dinner at Zaytinya with the wonderful Microsoft Partners in Learning U.S. staff where we all truly felt like a family!
  6. Learning about the extraordinary projects across countries, disciplines and levels; I was extremely blown away at what elementary students can do in the classroom!
  7. The Award Gala with all its “pomp and circumstance” and celebration of 21st century education! I truly believe that Educational Reform is not out of our reach…it’s happening as I type.
  8. Sitting at the gala with Lee Kolbert (@teachakidd) and Angela Maiers (@angelamaiers) sharing what we believe to be the best for students in our world. “You Matter” should be a message we extend to our students every day!
  9. Seeing six members of the USA Team receive first place in three (Collaboration, Knowledge Building and Critical Thinking, and Cutting-Edge Use of Microsoft Technology for Learning) out of six categories! “Throwing fish” will never feel the same again! “Virtual” is a good thing!
  10. Hearing my learning excursion team member Rui Silva, a primary school teacher from Portugal, (1st runner up for Collaboration) receive his award at the gala! It brought tears to my eyes! His second graders will be so proud!

My only wish? That every teacher could experience the motivation, inspiration and networking that I was exposed to at both the 2011 US Forum and the 2011 Global Forum. It has truly changed me professionally and personally and I will be forever grateful to Microsoft Partners in Learning for this inspirational awakening in my perspective, my drive and my soul.

A special thanks to Microsoft Partners in Learning [especially Stacey, Mary, Lauren, Rob, Carrie, Anthony, James, Cameron and Siegfried, my Team USA teammates (and friends)] and all the international teachers, administrators and judges for making this the best experience in my professional career! It has truly been a fabulous ride! I am anxious to share and continue the dialog with all of my new connections in the future.

My way to give back to Microsoft Partners in Learning? By contributing to the new Microsoft Partners in Learning Community that will debut January 2012! I’m looking forward to extending what my students and I create, do and share in the classroom with other teachers who brainstorm, plan and create to make teaching and learning fun, creative and innovative!

History Video Podcasts & QR Codes display at the Global Forum

My History Video Podcasts & QR Codes display at the Global Forum

Palmyra Area High School and my Emerging Technologies (sign in as guest; Click on High School > Business Education > Wiscount Emerging Technologies) students have received a lot of attention since our project won in July. I would like to whole-heartedly thank my students for a job well done! You are awesome and you deserve the national and international recognition and attention to your work! I am glad it was a win-win-win opportunity for us all! Always remember, You Matter!

“I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.” ~ George Bush

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My Profound Week at the Discovery Education/Siemens STEM 2011 Institute!

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 Network ~ to articulate and brainstorm with people that have the same interest, passion, and intention as you, in order to become better at what you do for others

The 50 Siemens STEM Institute 2011 Fellows in Washington, D.C.

Discovery Communications Headquarters, One Discovery Place, Silver Springs, MD

I was home less than 24 hours when I was back on the road again, headed to a different Washington…Washington, D.C. for the Siemens STEM Institute 2011 at the Discovery Education headquarters at One Discovery Place, Silver Springs, MD. When I received email notification back in March that I was one of fifty fellows accepted to the Siemens STEM Institute among 4000 applicants, I was absolutely thrilled! Up to that point, I’ve been a self-proclaimed STEM education advocate, but this experience would give me a more formal and focused direction in my support for building stronger ties across the disciplines.

Siemens STEM Institute 2011

Ruth Still, a physics and physical science teacher at the Hershey High School located in Hershey, PA notified me shortly after the announcement to let me know I was in store for a week of extraordinary professional development! Ruth is a 2010 Siemens STEM Institute fellow,and I soon found out that everything she told me about her experience the summer before was all that and much more!

The week began on Sunday, July 31st with a tour of the Discovery Communications Global headquarters, a welcome from Lori McFarling, Chief Marketing Officer at Discovery Education, and where I met the other 49 fellows and our Discovery Education team who would provide us with a week full of experiences, meetings, experiments, training, activities, etc.! What an enthusiastic group! Lance Rougeux VP of the Learning Communities and Instruction Implementation at the Discovery Educator Network, team leads Michael Bryant, Michael Gorman, Brad Fountain and our hostesses Patti Duncan, Jannita Demian, Krystal Putman, and Katie O’Hara, Discovery Education.

STEM Word Cloud

The Siemens STEM Institute and Discovery Education offered the fifty 2011 Siemens STEM fellows a forum to build common definition (the meaning of STEM education through research, pedagogy, and experts in the field), practical application (putting into action the goals of STEM education through best practices, constructing good inquiry and emerging technologies), content knowledge (developed through collaboration, immersion, experimentation and training), and community (throughout the week and continuing by way of team projects, fellows will continue the dialog and practice by connecting their classrooms and instruction in the coming school year).

Part of the week was a line-up of dynamic and accomplished keynote speakers, each having an inspirational impact to STEM education with a message for the educator fellows:

Dr. Lodge McCammon, Specialist, Curriculum & Contemporary Media, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

Message ~ FIZZ lectures: the power of multimedia in instruction and teaching along with kinesthetic motion and music can make mathematical concepts “come alive”; “flip” your classroom!

Dan Meyer, Curriculum Fellow, Google employee and Math Teacher, San Lorenzo Valley High School

Message ~ Create inquiry questions with the “hook” at the beginning of problems, followed by an visual act one and act two, activate the brain between the two acts, and don’t give all the information to the students. Let them ponder and seek it out.

Chris Lehmann, Principal of the Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, PA

Message ~ Our job as educators is to prepare students to be 21st century citizens, not workers.

Dr. Carl Wieman, Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dr. Carl Wieman, Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Message ~ Motivation is key to student learning and performance.

Danny Forster, Chief Architecture and Engineering Expert, Discovery Education Host, Discovery Channel’s The Rising & Science Channel’s Build it Bigger

Message ~ It is very important that the culture and history of an area is reflected in its buildings.

Brian Lamb, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, C-SPAN

Brian Lamb, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, C-SPAN

Message ~ Giving people the news as it happens is the right thing to do so they can make their own decisions.

Susan Swain, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, C-SPAN

Susan Swain, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, C-SPAN

Message ~ What is done at C-SPAN is by a group of passionate people putting viewers first.

Julene Reed, Director of Academic Technology, St. George’s Independent School

Message ~ Challenge-based learning can create learning experiences that tie together 21st century skills, meaningful and sustainable learning, collaboration, interdisciplinary content, authentic real-world problems, inquiry and student-directed learning.

Michael Lach, Special Assistant, STEM Education, U.S. Department of Education

Message ~ Together, we can make a difference in STEM education in our nation.

Dr. Patricia Galloway, First Female President of American Society of Civil Engineers

Message ~ Girls can be successful engineers and we as educators need to encourage students not to pay attention to the stereotypes inside STEM careers.

Jeniffer Harper-Taylor, President, Siemens Foundation

Message ~ STEM education is foremost in creating a dialog and network among STEM educators that will make a difference in the education and success of our youth.

Animal Planet meeting room at Discovery Education for technology training

Hall Davidson, Director, Discovery Educator Network

Message ~ Find the tool and create an anticipatory set that will grab the student’s attention to connect the concepts to the application.

Katie deBouchel, The College Board

Message ~ It is important that we “walk the talk” of delivering good educational experiences for our students and their learning.

Debbie Myers, General Manager & EVP, Science Channel

Message ~ Good storytelling opens up doors and learning opportunities. Where do each of your students fall in these strengths?

Breakfast Club Hot Air Balloon Launch on the rooftop of Discovery Communications headquarters

The resources and activities were bountiful!

Breakfast clubs were early morning science experiments prior to breakfast. Those experiments included build a better rocket, choose the super sorbent (oil spill clean-up), forensic blood splatter trajectory, and hot air balloon launches.

Educational technology training sessions offered to the Siemens STEM fellows highlighted Glogster, EverNote, Edmodo, Skype, Wikis, Google Docs, LiveBinder, Google SketchUp, Google Earth, Prezi, Animoto/JayCut/PhotoPeach, and Discovery Education resources.

Iwo Jima Memorial - U. S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington, D.C

 

 

Our off-site travel destinations included the White House Conference Center, C-Span headquarters, a Twilight D.C. Monument Tour and a visit to the U.S. Capitol Crypt, Rotunda and Statuary.

The Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History(NMNH) was also a favorite with “behind the scenes” rotations to the CT Scanner Lab Tour, Botany Herbarium Behind-the-scenes Tour, Human Origins Exhibition

The Forensic Anthropology Lab at Smithsonian Institute NMNH

Tour, Fossil Lab Tour and a Hands-on activity: Forensics Anthropology Lab. We were also welcomed by Bill Watson, Chief of Onsite Learning, who provided us with a summary of all the NMNH classroom resources and a sneak peak at the new on-site educational learning center.

My big “discoveries?” The Discovery Education Science Techbook for K-8, and the 9-12 edition in the works! It offers multimedia, alignment to state and Common Core Standards, content designed for different modalities in mind, inquiry-based, instant feedback, interaction, teacher resources, and more! Leafsnap, an interactive mobile app that identifies trees and other horticulture from the Smithsonian Institute NMNH and Columbia University. Also, the C-Span Classroom, free resources for Social Studies teachers may be used to connect real world events with curricular content.

My Siemens STEM Institute Project Team - click on image to see teachers, schools, and subjects

The fellows came up with STEM projects to work on in the upcoming school year. My project team represents  D.C., ND, IN, GA, PA, and MI. We will collaborate with our instruction and students in designing a green city using research, webinars and other technologies from September through March 2012. Our Design a Green STEM-Topia wiki will connect the six classrooms and create a learning space to share our research, knowledge, ideas, designs and solutions.

Receiving our Siemens STEM Institute 2011 lab coats and certificates was a proud moment for all the fellows. We transformed in the six days together into teachers with a more integrated focus across disciplines, a STEM education passion to fuel a much needed change in our teaching, in our districts, and for our students as a whole, and STEM networking relationships to last a lifetime.

The Siemens STEM Institute 2011 Fellows in front of the nation's Capitol.

Reflecting, the power that lies inside this valuable Siemens STEM Institute opportunity was the networking between the fifty fellows, the Discovery Education staff, and all the speakers and specialists we met during the week. I did not realize the exponential command, impact and appreciation of networking, and what networking can turn in to until after this week at the Siemens STEM Institute, Discovery Education, and last week’s experience at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Innovative Education Forum.

At the closing ceremony, giving my "thank you" statement.

My first wish for my school district? More opportunities for networking amongst teachers, departments, and levels. If we can come together to share, learn, create and collaborate on school strategies, missions and initiatives concerning instruction, delivery and student achievement, the tasks will become more richer, more meaningful and more relevant for all stakeholders. It’s that simple.

My heartfelt thanks to the Siemens STEM Institute, Discovery Education, ORAU (Oak Ridge Associated Universities) and the College Board for the most intensive professional development I have experienced, and also the most focused on the commonality of driving STEM education to new heights in our nation.
Ruth….you were absolutely right!

Networking ~ Connecting, cultivating and combining a system of people and resources to become a bigger “force” than just the individual parts.

 

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My Inspirational Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum Experience

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Inspire…and great things will come.

My Educators Choice Award at the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum

I was very fortunate to have my History Video Podcast & QR Code project that I do with my students in my Emerging Technologies high school course be one of 78 projects selected to compete in this year’s Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum (IEF) which was held July 27-29, 2011 in the Seattle/Redmond area in the beautiful state of Washington.

Prior to the IEF experience, I anticipated an event like I have never experienced before in my teaching degree. However, my predictions for the value of this opportunity were nowhere near the actual impact of the trip.

How would I summarize the experience? WOW! WOW! WOW! Exponential Energy! Engaging Emotions! Exhilarating Enthusiasm!

 

After a day of sightseeing in Bellevue and Seattle, the event officially started with a visit to the Microsoft Envisioning Lab and Microsoft Home of the Future. I was in awe to what we have to look forward to computing in both our academic and home environments. How can I summarize what I learned? Data and information will be connected, contextual, tactile and intelligent in its own means, along with embodying incredible interactivity.  Future computing will help us make better decisions, become immersed in our learning physically, mentally and intuitively and find connections to and amongst the data.  In essence, the data and information will work for us and become consulting in nature, with many choices in customization.

Then we headed to an outdoor welcome reception, meeting the other 101 IEF educators as well as the warm and friendly judges and Microsoft staff. Meeting many “famous ed-techie” bloggers whom I follow and inspire me was awesome! I met Vicky Davis (@coolcatteacher) Lee Kolbert (@TeachaKidd), Alfred Thompson of Microsoft (@AlfredTwo) and Steve Dembo of Discovery Education (@teach42).

Getting to know the other IEF educators was wonderful!  What I came back from that introduction reception with is that all of us educators are the same person; we teach with the same intention, passion and mission. We just look different, come from different states and schools, teach different disciplines, and have different students. After that night I wanted everyone to win a spot in the Top Ten!

The next day was what we all came to Redmond, Washington for…to showcase and share our innovative projects with judges, Microsoft and each other. Reading over the descriptions of the IEF educators’ projects, I knew I was in store for tremendous learning! Check out this Photosynth of the IEF Showcase held on the Microsoft campus.

We also had the privilege to hear Dr. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and the author of Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School . What will I take back from his presentation? Exercise boosts brain power!

The day continued with the teachers breaking up into their Learning Excursion groups and setting out for our designated destinations (Asian Art Museum, Pike Place Market, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Underground or Space Needle).

Afterward, we enjoyed a visit and reception at the Space Needle. The beautiful weather provided us with unbelievable views from the top. We could see Mt. Rainier, Puget Sound, Cascade Mountain, Olympic Mountains, the Seattle skyline and much water activity!

The last day of the event the educators were off once again learning together in our choice of two Technology Training Tracks (Free Tools, Immersive What?, Global TeachMeet and OneNote).  I attended Global TeachMeet and Immersive What? Global TeachMeet was a fast-paced sharing of educational technology ideas by teachers from more than 20 countries. It was phenomenal! I met Rana, a middle school teacher from Azerbaijan who I look forward to sharing resources & global classroom connection with in the coming school year. Pat Yongpradit, a 2010 Microsoft U.S. & Worldwide Innovative Educator Forum Winner, highlighted Immersive What?, showcasing Interrobang (missions), Kodu (game design lab) and Kinect (moving and grooving ~ Dr. Medina would be so happy:) in the classroom.

Our next keynote speaker was Dr. Jane McGonigal, director of Game Research & Development at the Institute for the Future, game designer, and author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Makes Use Better and How They Can Change the World. She had the whole group up and connecting, playing a game of thumb wrestling in nodes of three. How fun was that? It created lots of PERMA:  Positive Emotion, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment ~ immediately into our Microsoft world. She also shared the game trailer for EVOKE – a global giving game!

Our last speaker Mary Cullinane, the Director of Innovation and Strategic Initiatives for Worldwide Education at Microsoft, moved the group of educators with two pieces of advice: 1) Be a compass for your students.  2) You must do the things you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt. In fifteen short minutes, she created an aura that inspired and directed each and every IEF educator to do great things for our 21st century students!

Other Microsoft speakers who set the stage for inspiration were Lauren Woodman, General Manager for Worldwide Partners in Learning, Cameron Evans, National and Chief Technology Officer for U.S. Education, Andrew Ko, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation for U.S Education Business, and Anthony Salcito, Vice President of Worldwide Education.

The Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Education Forum finale was a Reception and Gala Dinner at Bell Harbor in Seattle. It was magnificent coming together for the last time with all the enthused and motivated educators and gracious Microsoft staff to celebrate each other and what we do in the classroom. The weather was perfect, which set the stage for a waterfront show many of us will never forget. After dinner, nine of the top ten educators were announced to go on to compete at the Partners in Learning Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in Washington, D.C. this November. I was thrilled to receive the Educators’ Choice Award for my History Video Podcasts and QR Codes project! I was both so very honored and humbled by the support of my project by the fellow IEF teachers. It will be a moment I will never forget! Thank you to all the educators who support what I do in my classroom. Since I was taking a red eye flight back to PA, I unfortunately had to catch my taxi to the airport and leave far too soon than I wanted. After the award was announced and I did my press interview, I ran to my shuttle, luggage in tow, but a smile big enough to fly myself home!

To read all the communication and sharing on the backchannel, go to the #msftpil hashtag backchannel created by Peter Pappas (@edteck) on Twitter.

I want to thank Microsoft Partners in Learning for an incredible, unforgettable, and inspiring experience of a lifetime! Kudos to Stacey, Nanette, Andrew, Rob, Adrian, David, and Mary! Your seamless planning to create an exhilarating, engaging, and exciting educational event energized every teacher, and as a result will make a tremendous meaningful impact on our students.

If you are an educator creating innovative projects for your students using Microsoft software, I highly encourage you to apply for next year’s Microsoft Partners in Learning U.S. IEF. It will be an professional development experience of a lifetime! In future posts, I will be highlighting many different free Microsoft software tools that can bring 21st century impact to both your content and delivery, and to your students’ learning and performance.

What do I take away from this experience? If we as educators, enlighten, engage and empower our students in the classroom to how fun, creative and social learning can be, their knowledge will become richer, more sustainable, and increasingly meaningful.

Inspiration ~ Something that happens when you grab onto a thought, word, or deed that moves you to do great things for others.

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My Blogging Debut

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Connect…It’s Time.

I was bitten by the “edtech” bug eight years ago when I began teaching. You may recognize some of the symptoms:

  • Sitting in front of the computer for hours a day, by choice
  • Getting so excited about a new Web 2.0 tool you immediately feel the need to create the end result
  • Thinking about how to engage students with something new in your instruction and delivery, during your commute to and from school
  • When talking to other teachers and friends about using technology in the classroom, you speak faster, happier and are very excited
  • Knowing what words/acronyms like “PLN”, “wiki”, “blog”, “twitter”, “WYSIWYG” (pronounced “wiz-ee-wig”), “jpeg” and “RSS” mean, and using them regularly in conversation without skipping a beat
  • Looking forward to reading tweets from educators and administrators you follow on Twitter and updates from LinkedIn connections
  • Enthusiasm and energy levels for anything “digital” have no boundaries
  • Only going to sleep when everything “digital” you wanted to accomplish that day is done

If you can relate to one or more of the above symptoms, you may be well on your way or already there as a fellow ed-techie!

The downside to all of this? No one else in my family is “afflicted” with this 21st century malady, so there are few people to connect and share virtual fulfillment and digital triumphs with at home.

However, when I attend an edtech conference, the enthusiasm, sharing and excitement escalate in leaps and bounds all around me. Thank goodness there are other geeky teachers out there like myself!  Attending and presenting at ISTE 2011 in Philadelphia last month left me with an incredible feeling; being in attendance with over 17,000 motivated educators, administrators and IT directors was heaven. Those three days affirmed to me there are many others out there experiencing (and enjoying) the same “edtech” fever as myself.

So what’s the fix? Writing and publishing this blog. Getting it down in 1’s and 0’s. Giving it a digital presence….and in the end, a global voice.

Not surprisingly, writing a blog has been on my “to-do” list for the past three summers. Since I took a break this summer from taking college courses, I knew this was the season I would begin blogging and sharing my ideas, experiences and resources with a larger audience.

Another reason to start the blog is digital storytelling. I have two phenomenal opportunities coming up in the next two weeks which I would like to share. The first is a visit to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA where I will compete in the Microsoft Partners in Learning 2011 U.S. Innovative Educational Forum for a place to represent the U.S. in the Global IEF competition this November. The second event is a week-long professional development opportunity at the Discovery Education Siemens STEM Institute in Washington, D.C. I planned to tweet about both experiences, however, one can only reflect so much in 140 characters….AKA, the need for the blog to come to fruition.

When my students come in to my classroom the first day of a course, I tell them it is my mission that they leave my classroom at the end of the course with a happier smile than when they walked in the first day. My mission for this blog is that after visitors and followers read my posts, they leave my blog with a bigger smile than when they started.

I call my blog, Activating your eCuriosity. “eCuriosity” is the positive name I give my obsession. ;) I define “eCuriosity” as “eagerness to learn, explore, play, create, know and share anything digital.” Hopefully, if you are driven by the same edtech condition, you will find solace in reading my blog and inspiration to try something new.

So let the therapy begin!

When we Connect we create Connections. Connections with others sharing the same passion bring positive rewards to all.

 

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