Traveloteacher

In Redmond I had a wonderful opportunity to present at my First Teach Meet ever. If you don't know what a Teach Meet is you can take a look at this video . All our Teach Meet sessions were recorded on video, but while we're waiting for the videos to be uploaded, and following Fiona's suggestion, I made a screencast of my presentation on Live Meeting webinars for students. Teach Meet session - Watch more Tech Videos at Vodpod .

It's been a week since we returned from Seattle, but the blogoshpere is teeming with posts about our visit, our experiences, our learning activities and excursions, about the wonderful time we spent together. In order not to miss any of the precious posts by my fellow PIL bloggers, I've decided to make a list of all the posts about the Institute that have been published up to now and I'll update the list on a regular basis. Please keep me posted about the new arrivals. Here they are (in the order they appeared) Bart : Ped Xing Dan : Microsoft Magical Mystery Tour Part 15 - Amazing just the way you are (feel free to read parts 1-17 as well:-))) Bram : Maken we chef koks van onze leerlingen of keukenhulpjes?  ;   Follow the guide through the Microsoft Partners in Learning Institute  and The balance between Microsoft, partners and learning Arjana :   Seattle, Bellevue, Redmond ,   Inspired, motivated and enthusiastic  (+ ...

I just returned from Seattle where I attended a training for top 50 educators from 31 countries, organised by the Microsoft Partners in Learning Network. We were invited to Seattle to be trained to become teacher-trainers in innovative teaching and learning practices. This past week has been absolutely fabulous. Whenever I come home from a trip, I always ask myself what the best moment of the trip was. But now it's simply impossible for me to pick out just one, because - meeting 49 amazing teachers from 30 countries and learning from them (and there was so much that I could learn from each and every one of them) - meeting the excellent organizers of the seminar who made the whole week as memorable as possible - taking part in meticulously organised sessions and workshops - getting familiar with so many wonderful tools that can be used in the classroom - feeling inspired to apply what I have learned - being ready to change my tea...