Thought IÂ’d just state up front that this is a reflection post and not a blogging post. Something Will Richardson has been discussing over on Weblogg-ed. I havenÂ’t written in a couple days, but have been spending a lot of time reading and reflecting on what other people have been posting and discussing. I find myself thinking a lot about […]
While browsing Firefox extensions the other day, I happened upon the TextMarker extension. WOW, what a great tool for students to use while researching the web. Students can highlight text as they read a web page. Then when they are finished they simply right click over the highlighted text and copy just the parts they have highlighted to their notes. […]
IÂ’ve been rereading George Siemens Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age. I think this makes the third time IÂ’ve read it in the past 6 months. I read it because I feel George is on to something here, and as I blog and continue to expand my own learning by “connecting specialized nodes or information sources” together, I […]
Reece Lennon wrote a comment to my posting yesterday on ‘What is the purpose of a school web site?Â’ I thought IÂ’d take this one step further and answer some of ReeceÂ’s questions. Principal As webmaster? Why not? Part of a principalÂ’s job description is “Communicate with parents, community members, and the larger school community effectively.” In the past this […]
This is the topic of a meeting I have today with the other technology teachers in my district. So I thought IÂ’d prepare for the meeting by taking some time and writing my thoughts down. IÂ’m glad we are stopping for a moment to look at what is our objective with a school web site. What is it we are […]
Last night my wife and I sat down to watch some TV. The first time we have done so in weeks. We flipped to a channel that was showing “Medical Investigation”. As I watched the episode where the Medical Investigation team was trying to find out what was causing kids in a small town to get sick, I found myself […]
So I woke up at 4:00 this morning to join the techleaning.com webinar on The Tipping Point in K-12 Education: One-to-One Computing, Electronic Textbooks, and New Tools for Learning. A great presentation on the use of computers in the classroom and the power that one-to-one computing offers to schools. It was the first time I had taken part in a […]
On David WarlickÂ’s blog the past couple of days there has been a great discussion about pre-service teachers and what skills should they be taught before being thrown into the lions den. 🙂 A follow up to DavidÂ’s discussion was also posted on Christopher HarriÂ’s Imfomency blog a great post from someone teaching pre-service teachers. There are a couple points […]
After reading David WarlickÂ’s post: Innovation Learning for a Flat World, I got to thinking about the games that our students play on a daily basis and how right David and Bill MacKenty were about the language that these short-cuts use. So, I went out to the internet and in less than five minutes I found a short-cut to a […]
A great new article out by cnet.com titled Blogging 101-web logs go to school. I was glad to see that the classroom mentioned is using the same student friendly blog program as I am using with my 5th graders. Blogmeister is a great program that allows teacher to control the content that students publish.