Who is this guy?
First and most important of all, I am a teacher. I have been teaching for sixteen years and I learn something every day.
I teach full time and enjoy being involved with research to improve what we do in our classrooms. I am involved with efforts to redefine literacy and what it means to be literate in our twenty-first century, technologically advanced society.
I write articles, give presentations, and think about classrooms 2.0 and the possibilities for learning.
My classroom has been featured in several articles in Middle School Journal, Technology and Learning, and in the recent book New Literacies in Action. I have also been featured on CBC, CNET, and MSN.
I have been honoured to win one of Canada’s highest teaching awards; the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching. I have also been named an Outstanding Middle Years Educator in my province, as well as winning several other awards for the innovative integration of technology into everyday classroom life.
I live in a small rural community and think geography is irrelevent on our hyperconnected globe. This leads to the tagline of my blog: “Even From Here.”
Blog: Remote Access
email: glassbeed@gmail.com
Skype: glassbeed
delicious bookmarks: cfisher
Personal flickr page: glassbeednorth
Twitter: glassbeed
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[...] Clarence Fisher rocks. Spend a little time with Clarence as he explores what it means as a teacher not to be the “smartest one in the room” anymore. (Hint: We aren’t talking about SmartBoards.) He (David Weinberger) played on one idea that we have been talking about in education; that teachers who use the internet in powerful ways in their classrooms are no longer the smartest person in the room. He then pushed one step further, asking us “if the smartest person in the room is the room itself; how do we create smarter rooms?” [...]
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[...] in class we had three guests, Darren, Kathy, and Clarence, come and share how they use technology/computers in their classrooms. They are all teachers who [...]
Similar to you, I teach in a small rural school. For those of us who teach students in agricultural areas, we sometimes get asked, “Why do I need to know this? This has got nothing to do with farming.” I thought you might enjoy reading the attached article, which points out why these students will benefit from web 2.0 tools, surfing the net, etc. in order to be successful. The fact that it’s from a farm magazine (passed onto me by my husband, the farmer), means the message will hold more weight with these students, than any other type of paper or website. I’ll be sure to post the hard copy I have at home on my classroom bulletin board on Monday.
http://cornandsoybeandigest.com/ag-issues/1115-future-leader-skills...
Heather Durnin
Class Website http://hdurnin.pbworks.com
Blog http://hdurnin.wordpress.com
Twitter @hdurnin
[...] what it means to be literate in our twenty-first century, technologically advanced society.” (Citation) His classroom has been featured on major sites such as CBC, CNET, and MSN. Check out Mr. [...]