Goodbye to your job.

Goodbye to your job.

I’ve showed this video to 3 classes now: Afterwards I ask each class “What does this mean for education” And each class responds: “No need for teachers anymore.” Actually one class said “Goodbye to your job!” Interesting response I think. [tags]microsoft surface[/tags] Technorati Tags: microsoft surface

My NECC Schedule beta

My NECC Schedule beta

With a week to go until we fly back to the States for the summer, NECC is coming ever closer. Thought I’d post what I’m thinking about at this stage. Of course all this can change, and as you can see there are some overlaps. Either way some great sessions I’m looking at attending.Sunday, June 245:45-7:00pm Opening KeynoteLocation: GWCC Murphy […]

End of year summative self assessment

End of year summative self assessment

My principal sent us a document to fill out as an end of the year summative self assessment. I thought I would use the same documents here as a summative report of my year. Reflecting is always a good thing and I encourage you to take these same questions and do a summative self assessment as well. Can I suggest […]

Virtual Teacher's Lounge

Virtual Teacher's Lounge

So people often ask me what is Twitter and why do you twit? Well I think theartguy found it yesterday: Time for bed. I’ll “see” you in the morning, fellow lurkers in this virtual teacher’s lounge! When I read this twit, it hit me. This is what twitter has become for many…for us I think. A virtual teacher’s lounge were […]

Flickr Stats

Flickr Stats

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 […]

SL Keynote Presentation

SL Keynote Presentation

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 […]

KJ Hax- SL Best Practice session

KJ Hax- SL Best Practice session

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 […]

Push or Pull?

Push or Pull?

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. […]

Embedded Technology

Embedded Technology

(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 […]

Tutorials for Second Life

Tutorials for Second Life

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 […]