Thanks to Justin for posting this. Funny how when you find an interesting resource that it just continues to catch your eye. Watch this 50 minute video. Call it your Professional Development for the day.
Brain Rules presentation and another summer read
Found this great presentation at Presentation Zen today. A blog that every educator should read. We are…at are core presenters and this blog keeps you honest. Check out this presentation made specifically for the web on a book called Brian Rules. After watching this I’ve added it to my summer book list. Tags: books, presentations
Can you become Creative?
Or another question: How do we create creative people?
Conversation with PSU students
I’m wrapping up what will be the last grad course I’ll be teaching at PSU for awhile. Moving to a new country, a new job, and starting some other projects will be keeping me busy for awhile. I’ve really enjoyed teaching the course Teaching & Learning in a Networked Classroom. A course that is ran on an open wiki that […]
Taking control of your school's profile: Where to start
So I woke up this morning to find that my post last night on school’s taking control of their profiles has started a little conversation. I gave a talk on this topic to educators and administrators at the EARCOS conference in March that scared a few, made a few jump into action, and others left shaking their heads not knowing […]
Schools: Take control or forfeit your profile
Who is controlling your school’s online profile? In my presentation to educators I usually say: You need to take control of your online presence, because if you don’t…someone else will! Do schools have someone looking after their online profile? Do we need to create a new position in the communication office? I just got done editing my school’s wikipedia entry […]
Are students today hyper-connected?
From hugh at gapinvoid
Fundraising in a Web 2.0 World
What I truly love about the web is when it takes thing that before seemed hard and difficult and all of a sudden makes them easy. Not only that, but when you are trying to get money and funds into a country that is hard to get into to begin with the web allows you access to people on the […]
Using Twitter to get news on earthquake
I had an idea the other day to use Twitter to get news coming directly from the Sichuan Province. I had just learned about twitterlocal.net a website that will track the twitter users coming from a specific location. So I went to twitterlocal and searched for Sichuan. I took a look at the feed and go figure everything was in […]
Microsoft launches World Wide Telescope
Microsoft launched the World Wide Telescope project this week. Watch this: Then go download, play, experiment, send to science teachers, and let the creativity begin!