Well we’re through the first day of David Warlick’s visit. He did three sessions on Harnessing the Digital Landscape with our teachers and one Video Games in education….and today is a light day for him. When we bring speakers in..which isn’t very often, we tend to have them going full on and David is no exception. One thing that struck […]
David Jakes took the recent talk around School 2.0 and did a nice mash-up on the techlearning blog. So here is my attempt at characterizing School 2.0, driven by ideas from David, Will, Clarence and Jeff: Unlearning. Relearning. The desire and climate to do both, by all members of the school community in a constant and never-ending self-adjustment dance. Fluid. […]
I mean I know you can do it…I’m doing it..but is this amazing or what. My Mother-in-Law is on her way to China. Using a flight tracker and Google Earth I can watch in real time as she makes her way across the Pacific. Seeing that we are about 10 miles from the airport and it’s pretty foggy and because […]
I just left this comment on a message board with some pre-service teachers: What is more important to be adaptable or knowledgeable? (think dinosaurs) The word adaptable and adaptability have been floating around in my head for some time now and how they define what we are trying to do in the 21st century and why it is so hard […]
I’ve been feeling it for a couple days now as the weather here has started to change, but today I’m feeling it. Call it the ‘itch’ or the 20 years I played the game…but there is something in my blood that just knows when the time has come. It hit 60F here for the first time today, and even though […]
Preparing for our upcoming Tech Fest is taking it out of me…and more importantly taking up my blogging time. I find myself eager to just sit, relax and blog….funny that writing has become a relaxing activity for me….never in my life did I ever think that would happen. The biggest crime of the last week and a half is the […]
mwesch of YouTube left a video response to my Web 2.0 video that I uploaded almost a year ago now. A great video worth your 4 minutes. [tags]web 2.0, youtube[/tags] Technorati Tags: web 2.0, youtube