For a more formal Curriculum Vitae, please see my LinkedIn profile.

This is a collection of comments, quotes and views of things I’ve done in this wonderfully connected, digital world that we live in:

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Stephen Downes - Open Education Manifesto 4/12/11                        David Truss authors and expands upon a worthwhile education manifesto. "Teaching is my professional practice," he writes. "I Share by default. I am Open, Transparent, Collaborative, and Social." Nice.

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Jonathan E. Martin - A Few of my Favorite Blogs 12/31/10          David Truss is the independent school (international independent, in Dalian, China) administrator whose blog I currently most admire; he writes at Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts. He posts 2-5 times a month; he writes about his school-work and his educational philosophy interchangeably;  and he uses images powerfully.  He is also unafraid to write at length.     Some recent posts I admired include:

1. •No Office Day!
   

• a goal that is nothing less than making the world a better place

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Amalia Giebitz - Reflecting on 2010: Digital Story Highlights 12/23/10 I have to thank my friend and digital mentor, David Truss...  David started me on this pathway over a year ago, and lit a fire under me to re-engage with a creative part of myself that had long gone dormant.

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Chris Kennedy - Professional Learning Beyond Borders 11/26/10

It is always dangerous to make a list, knowing I will miss some key people, but some of those within B.C.’s education system who are influencing my thinking right now include:  David Truss (a Coquitlam principal currently working in China), ...

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Lyn Hilt - Thanks... (2010 Edublog Award Nominations) 11/15/10

* Best individual blog – David Truss – Pair-a-Dimes for your Thoughts  David is an amazing soul. He is consistently positive, eager to help colleagues, and his posts are inspirational and informative. I appreciate reading about his experiences and ideas, and I’m thankful he has taken the time to comment on my own thoughts on many occasions.

Beth Knittle - Edublog Award Nominations are now Open 11/11/10

Best individual blog:  Pair-a- dimes for your thoughts – David Truss

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Sabrina De Vita - My 2010 Edublog Award Nominations 11/15/10

Best School Administrator blog by David Truss Pair-a-dimes for your thoughts

Eduardo Peirano - My 2010 Edublog Award Nominations 11/14/10

Best school administrator blog: from David Truss Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

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Rob Griffith - What Came To Mind 9/22/10

I am Inspired to Incorporate. David Truss is a principal of a PreK-9 Foreign Nationals School in Dalian, China. His blog, Pair-a-dimes for your thoughts, inspires me to look beyond the classroom. To initiating contact with parents and those around me in an attempt to promote outcome and achievement. His focus on student challenges and success are the driving force behind my planned outcomes.

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Lorna Costantini - Parenting in the Digital Age by David Truss

8/30/10 ...Raising Digital Kids wikispace created by David Truss. This is a really solid resource for both parents and teachers to use to work together around parenting and parenting in a digital age. You will want to review Parents as Partners: Questions and Advice for a series of questions and suggestions about how to help raise children in a digital age. Teachers will find this a wonderful support document for working with families in their school.

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Shelly Terrell - It’s Worth Taking a Look at This Blog!  5/14/10            • Pair-of-Dimes For Your Thoughts by David Truss- His posts continuously make me reflect on my pedagogy and instructional practice.

Check out A Brave New World-Wide-Web! (The video version)

Sabrina Da Vita - Blogs Worth Taking a Look at… 5/11/10

So here goes my list of 10 blogs to recommend [...]

David Truss Pair-a-dimes: Great reflections on education, technology and learning.

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Richard Byrne - A Brave New World-Wide-Web  4/14/10

A Brave New World-Wide-Web is a video that David Truss produced a couple of years ago...

Karl Fisch's Did You Know? (in all of its various forms) is often played at school professional development sessions in an attempt to illustrate to teachers how different the world of today's students is compared to the world when we were students. David Truss's A Brave New World-Wide-Web could also be a great video to share with teachers at professional development sessions. In fact, I might be more inclined to show Truss's video because it shows what students can do with today's web and the advantages of education with the web versus education without the web. This point is driven home in the video with the statement, "can you teach without technology? Yes, but why would you want to?"

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Jan Smith - My Edublog Awards Nominations 12/4/09

Best teacher (leader) blog: http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/ I am actually cheating on this one because David Truss is technically an administrator, but he is always a teacher. I think it is time the Edublog Awards recognize the influence of blogging administrators. David has always been an educator who reflects on his practice. The whole community benefits from his thinking out loud, as well as his encouragement.

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Eduardo Peirano - My Nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards 11/28/09 Most influential blog post...

My blog is my PhD, by David Truss

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Bryan Jackson - Edublog Award Nominations 11/28/09

Best individual blog  Dave Truss’  Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts – I am a big fan of Dave Truss’, and not only because he encouraged my school’s English department to start blogging, and offered this blog its first encouraging comments. But because he writes fantastic pieces like his Remembrance Day Two Wolves post that is based in the philosophy of moral conduct and yet told through a tale of modern travel and warfare, framed in age-old mythology.

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Lisa Nielsen - The PODs Are Coming! 10/12/09

Every so often I think it is important to share great presentations, videos, or posts from other bloggers. This one falls into that category. It’s a presentation shared at the Building Learning Communities conference Manhattan model school leaders and I attended last summer from blogger David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts.

...For some insight into the answers to these questions, it is my pleasure to invite you to view this provocative presentation.

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Ayanna Gillian - Teaching Girls and Web2.0 10/3/09

The video, A Brave New World Wide Web looks at the benefits, more like the imperative of using the web in teaching. It outlines how the making of connections, such an important part of learning and critical thinking, is so perfectly facilitated by the use of web technology in the classroom and makes the case for the classroom becoming a digital entity without borders.

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Sharon Elin - More show and tell: Dave Truss rocks! 7/31/09

The PODs Are Coming!

Not only does this slideshow offer highly important points about opening our minds to new technology in education, but Dave Truss, author of the Pair-a-dimes For Your Thoughts blog, knows the secrets of polishing his visual material so it captures his audience’s imagination along with its intellect. This is a perfect example of ditching the tired, boring, bulleted PowerPoint. Instead, he uses engaging images that bring the text to life. 

His message may seem radical to some teachers who are resistant to new technology such as handhelds and cellphones, but his approach is so provocative and convincing that I can’t imagine audiences refusing to entertain his ideas, at least long enough to peek into the possibilities while going along for the ride. 

Share it with teachers and administrators near you!

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Stephen Downes - The Rant, I Can't, The Elephant and the Ant- On SlideShare 7/25/09

I found the slide show through the Web 2.0 Slideshare group...

It's a good presentation, and a nifty use of video.

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Curriki - Developing a Student Leadership Program at Como Lake Middle School - Masters Paper 2/1/09

This resource was reviewed... and received an overall Curriki Review System rating of 3 - Exemplary

     Component Ratings:    • Technical Completeness: 3

     • Content Accuracy: 3    • Appropriate Pedagogy: 3

Reviewer Comments:  This resource is a Masters thesis on how to develop and improve a student leadership program at a middle school level... This thorough educational document would be useful to anyone at the mid school level looking at a leadership program.

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A. Salt - BLC 08 DAVID TRUSS "THIS MY BLOG HAS TAUGHT ME" 1/2/09  It is BLC 08 and in particular these 2 talks by Ewan McIntosh and David Truss, that I credit with the creation of this blog and my Spanish wiki http://spanishingrosvenor.wikispaces.com Here's to connecting with others and pushing ourselves further in 2009!

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Liz B. Davis - Edublog Award Nominations 11/27/08

The problem is that I have so many blogs to choose from. I have more that 1000 unread items in my Edtech folder alone. Here are a few of my favorites. 

Best individual blog: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

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John Goldsmith - The Brave New World-Wide-Web 9/24/08

The Brave New World-Wide-Web is a video creation by educator David Truss focusing on technology and teaching. 

While there have been lots of people commenting on technology and teaching, this one created by BC educator and fellow blogger David Truss really nails it, IMHO.

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More about David Truss

     I have two blogs that I am using to chronicle who I am and what I do as an educator. My Pair-A-Dimes for Your Thoughts has a philosophical bent to it: my thoughts on education, learning and technology.

     My Daily-Ink is an (almost) daily journal as well as things that don't make it onto my blog, or haven't gotten there yet. It includes quotes from other bloggers with my comments, or comments I’ve made elsewhere.

     On this site, you can find links and references to my forays into the world of Web2.0, some of my Presentations, and Student Leadership resources based on my University of Oregon Masters paper.

Find out more on ‘About Me’, or on LinkedIn.

Feel free to Contact Me or explore resources in the links above.