Sardines @ OSPI

Washington State’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) hosts an annual January conference. This year’s conference was focused on Personalizing Education with a special emphasis on mathematics and secondary level. This year my district sent a large contingent of 60 some educators to participate in the fun learning.

The highlight of many for this conference was the keynote of Ian Jukes. His topic was “Futurist Windows on the Future: Teaching and Learning in the New Digital Landscape”

To most of us Edubloggers Ian Jukes is commonly known as the “Committed Sardine”.

He has been a teacher, administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor and keynote speaker. He is the director of the Info Savvy Group, an international consulting firm that provides leadership and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, alignment, curriculum design, publication, professional development and change management and more. Ian has written six books and nine educational series, and has had more than 100 articles published in various journals.

Many that listened to Ian Jukes are now “Committed Sardines”and may be reading this blog as well as his for the first time. If you like Ian’s blog, you’ll love these too:

1. David Warlick - 2 Cents Worth
2. Miguel Guhlin - Mousing Around
   
3. Alan November - Alan November Weblog
   
4. Doug Johnson - Blue Skunk Blog
5. Glenn Malone - PEP Tech Talk
6. Bud Hunt - Bud the Teacher
7. George Siemens - Connectivism Blog
8. Helen Barret - E-Portfolios for Learning
9. Ed-Tech Insider - Ed-Tech Insider
10. Anne Davis - EduBlog Insights
11. John Pederson - pedersondesigns
12. Tim Lauer - Education/Technology
13. K.G. Schneider - Free Range Librarian
14. Christopher Harris - Infomancy
15. Tim Wilson - The Savvy Technologist
16. Jenny Levine - The Shifted Librarian
17. Stephen Downes - OL Daily
18. David Jakes - The Strength of Weak Ties
19. Jeff Utecht - The Thinking Stick
20. Will Richardson - Weblogg-ed
21. Konrad Glogowski - Proximal Development
22. Wesley Fryer - Moving at the Speed of Creativity
    

For a comprehensive list of great educational online discussions checkout John Pederson’s website and here’s a list of last year’s award winning Edublogs
and finally, here’s a list of current blogs in our district.

Welcome to the Blogosphere Sardines!