On my way to our technology standards meeting and there is something not sitting well with me. I can’t put my finger on it but I just keep asking myself: Do we need technology standards? The new NETs for students look good. But I can’t help but think that we are focusing on the wrong thing. If technology is a […]
So tonight was our ‘Beginning of the year BBQ’ basically a meet up of all the teachers to welcome each other back from the summer break. It’s a good time to catch up on what everyone did this summer and meet some of the new people. I happened to sit down next to our new High School science teacher who […]
One thing that blogging, Skyping, and social-networking has taught me is to listen for the conversations. The conversations that carry a message of the flat world or of the changing of our society. In the last couple of days I’ve had some conversations that have made me stop and think about the world we are in today and the world […]
So now that I’ve had a couple of days to think about what this means about China’s policies and ultimately what this means for the Chinese citizens here’s what I’m thinking. I can’t help but think there is something going on behind the scenes here. Blogger is owned by Google, Google and China have been in talks about filtering and […]
It’s late at night and I’m on my way to bed after a long day but needed to post this. I received two text messages from friends today that simple said “Blogspot is unblocked!“ This is huge! Give it a moment to sink in. Now I can finally read and respond to David Jakes, Vicki Davis and the rest of […]
Ok, so these pictures were taken 72 hours after the original ones (scroll down to see earlier post). Carpet is almost finished. When we did the walk through I counted 16 guys laying carpet. This is the media center looking back towards the center. It shows the height and openness a little better. This is the second part of the […]
eSchool News reported this: As the popularity of social-networking web sites such as MySpace.com and Facebook.com continues to rise, many college campuses have taken to discussing the dangers often associated with these and other sites as a part of their freshman orientation programs. While the sites can be effective vehicles for tech-savvy students to meet and greet new friends, administrators […]
Not sure how I missed this the first go around. But David Warlick posted about EdBloggerNews that Will Richardson set up a while back. I looked at the site yesterday morning at about 5:30am and was very impressed. A digg style site for Education 2.0. If you haven’t gone to the site and grabbed the rss feed do it now. […]
While I was out at school yesterday I took a tour of the new media center that will be ready in 10 days time for the start of school. Now, I’ve mentioned before how fast they build things here in China and hopefully this will drive my point home even more. Remember everything you see here will be (we are […]
I’ve had a couple really good days of working lately. Getting excited for school to start and the more I work on the computer and learn new things, the more excited and more ideas I get for my classes this year. First off you’ll notice a new theme in place. Created by Ben at Binary Moon the theme Regulus caught […]