WOW2 Show #113 with Robin Ellis

May 12, 2009

Robin Ellis joins us for our lively discussion about Open PD

Instructional Technology Specialist in the Quakertown Community School District in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. She has been working in the

instructional branch of the technology department for the past 8 years. Her job focuses on working with teachers and students in the classroom on anything that relates to technology and the curriculum. Robin currently maintains the Connecting Through Conversations blog, she teaches an online professional development course OpenPD with Darren Draper. She has presented at several conferences including the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Conference (2005, 2008), EduCon2.0 2008, Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (2008) and the Pennsylvania School Board Association Excellence Fair (2007).

About Open PD

Open PD is an open staff development course that any teacher, administrator, or technology specialist can join to learn more about the many free, online tools that can be used to enhance your teaching.

Classes are held once weekly, in five week blocks, with the global participants joining the face-to face participants in Utah, USA using

Skype

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Ustream and the Open PD wiki.

Robin Ellis Sites:
Blog http://connectedtalk.wordpress.com/
Wiki http://socialsoftware07.wikispaces.com/
Wiki http://openpd.wikispaces.com
http://thewallscamedown.wikispaces.com/Presenters
http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/02/21/conversations-community-and...

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