DAVID WEES

Thoughts from a reflective educator.

Presentations for tomorrow

February 7, 2013

I'm presenting at the ISABC professional development conference tomorrow, twice. Once on using Twitter as a professional development tool, and the other time on the use of technology in math class. I've embedded the slides for these presentations below. Both presentations are intended to be run as workshops so that participants will be expected to do just that, participate.



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