Delayed posting by 3 days IÂ’m sitting here in the Johannesburg airport. Mad again that they have wireless access but want me to pay for it. At $5 for 30 minutes, IÂ’ll wait to upload later. We have a couple hours before our flight to Cape Town leaves, so my wife is catching a couple Zs on my lap while […]
Delayed posting by 4 days 11582m (38,000ft) above sea level 837km/h (520mph) Middle of the Indian Ocean Heading West by Southwest 3450km (2,143 miles) to Johannesburg There are many different kinds of blogging. You have your: Mo-blogging = Mobile Blogging V-blogging= Video Blogging RT-blogging = Blogging in real time at a function I’m sure there are others I haven’t heard […]
School’s out for the year and it’s that first Saturday when all the stress of the year starts to fade away and you look forward to the summer. I should be packing now for our flight out of here today but who needs clothes anyway. 😉 I’m getting excited for my first NECC conference, especially now that I know it’s […]
There are many reasons to love flickr. One of them being that on the last day of school when your stress level is at that point that you realize you have way to much to do to meet your checkout time, a picture like this flashes on your screen. It’s then you realize that everything is going to be alright! […]
Have I mentioned how much I love my netvibes page? Today I pulled up a link via my Digg feed entitled: How Long Will America Lead the World . It’s a Newsweek article written by Fareed Zakaria. I usually don’t respond to political articles, but this one kept coming back to education and had me thinking. So I’ve pulled some […]
Found this from Miguel today. A great movie…a digital story of sorts about using renewable resources. Watch the movie here Could we do a movie like this about education? Education 2056 I’d love to be apart on a project like that. A movie like this about education, how it changed and what it will look like in the future? Movies […]
Sometimes things are worth repeating. I posted this on U Tech Tips, but I like David’s article so much I thought I’d post it here as well.—————————————- David Warlick does some of his best writing at 3am. This post is a perfect example! Dave discusses teaching information literacy in the primary grades. I’ll be adding this to the U Tech […]
As we close out Friday with only four days of school next week, the 5th graders are running to me an asking about their blogs and their network accounts. But the most frequently asked question is: “Do we get to have Gaggle next year?” Gaggle.net has by far been the most disruptive technology that I have introduced to the students […]
Last week I had the opportunity to get a free Demo of Freepath, presentation software that allows you to easily use many types of files for a presentation. No more trying to get a movie to embed into PowerPoint or waiting for a web page to load. With Freepath you are not stuck in the linear ways of PowerPoint, but […]
Not much to say except go read this. Technorati Tags: Will Richardson, network of knowledge, education