Was trying to add a flickr picture to a post today and found out that flickr was down. Headed over to the flickr blog where they give these latest stats: Miscellaneous stats to keep you entertained while we wait: * Our networking gear moves 12,000 photos a second — at peak, that’s 2,654,208,000 bits each second (8:20 PM) * We […]
Part of a comment left by Catherine Hiltz on Embedded Technology I think that the first step needs to involve creating a better understanding of educational paradigm shift. Perhaps this needs to be done by the provincial departments or at the division level. Without the philosophical background/understanding, I think that perhaps most educators will continue to flounder with tech. I […]
Peggy Sheehy (Maggie Marat-SL)Catherine Parsons (Victoria Gloucster-SL) Kevin Jarrett (KJ Hax-SL) K-12 Panel: “To Affinity and Beyond: Fostering meaningful and productive relationships in a virtual reality environment” Notes: SL is primarily a community forming site. MUVE (SL) allows people to view the “world” through they’re own actions. Unlike an online course that has walls. SL allows each person to experience […]
SL created learning communities PD is not that much different then RL at this time. (This will be interesting to watch) Hardware and bandwidth are still issues with SL Teen Grid Findings Suffern Middle School Mac School Learn more and more engaged in SL Need a school infrastructure and support for successful SL implementation Self-directed learning (Is what SL is […]
While reading through some 5th grader blogs I came across this poem. Not sure if it’s an original or if they copied it from somewhere although a quick Google search didn’t bring up anything. Anyway why is it when I read this I think education? I can’t get my front door to open, No matter how hard that I try. […]
(I still find it funny what blog posts start conversations) A great conversation on TTWWADI is brewing between the comments left on my last post and Clarence Fisher adding to the conversation on his own blog. The more this conversation emerges the more I’m convinced that an embedded technology approach is a great approach to use in schools. My issue […]
That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It I was hit this week with a TTWWADI right in my own teaching. It’s the end of the semester and so in TTWWADI fashion the students are creating web sites using Dreamweaver. The project includes everything we’ve been talking about this past semester. The only difference is the students have had a blog […]
I was looking for some tutorials for Second Life today when our web master sent me this link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=second+life+tutorial&search=Search Yep, just a simple search on YouTube brings up a list of tutorials. I learned how to write a script so now when you click on my picture it takes you to my web site…it’s a start. [tags]secondlife[/tags] Technorati Tags: secondlife […]
I read the call for proposals today and the first thing I did was run over to some of the people that were at my LAN parties last year and said…we’re on! Now just have to come up with what to present and how to present it before June 18th. I encourage everyone to throw your hat in the ring […]
O.K. so I don’t know how to give myself a haircut, but I have an office now in Second Life. Located on the second floor of the C.A.V.E. (Center for Advanced Virtual Education) Thanks to Kevin Jarrett (KJ HAX) for inviting me in and for Doug Johnson (BlueSkunk Johnson) for sharing his office space with me. Sunday morning I woke […]