I have a lot of plans this summer as most international educators do. Toping the list as always is visiting friends and family back home. But other than that I’m looking forward to the NECC conference. This will be my first time attending the conference as before moving overseas I could never afford it, and now that I’m overseas, I […]
This seems to be the thing at the moment so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. Go to this site and put in a web address and enjoy looking at your personal network. The Thinking Stick U Tech Tips-Technology for Educators U Tech Tips is a much larger network as we link to Edtech articles and other resources on […]
Clarence Fisher posted this picture today from Gaping Void and states: Â…this says what education is all about these days. I couldnÂ’t agree more. IÂ’ve been thinking about my posting a while back on education being perpetual beta. Perpetual Schools: A theme for many educators is the idea that schools are ever evolving to meet the real-time demands of students. […]
Read this on techcrunch today: San Francisco based Bebo popped a few bottles of champagne and announced a very healthy $15 million round of financing, led by Benchmark Capital. Bebo is one of the largest and fastest growing social networks, with 24 million users and 2.5 billion page views per month. More from PaidContent and Jeff Clavier. This is a […]
sms competition Originally uploaded by GuyBrighton. Just had to share this. I was on the bus home today, having a little fun texting my Chinese teacher (in Chinese Pingyin of course) when I looked at the seat diagonal to me and saw an 8th grader texting as well. The difference: I texted one message in the same amount of time […]
My 25% PD came in the form of an hour bus ride this morning. There was enough thought provoking information in that 1 hour, I feel, to be considered my 25% PD for the week. I’m really starting to love this hour bus ride I have in the morning. Of course I’m not driving which makes all the difference, and […]
PC World in it’s May 2006 magazine has release 101 Fabulous Freebies. Some great tools, most I’ve heard of, but as usual many I have missed out on and want to try. They even have a whole category on Blogging Tools, RSS Readers, and Video Sharing. A good resource when talking to teachers about how the web is changing. Thanks […]
I received an e-mail today from next year’s principal asking us to create and give a short description of the electives we want to teach next year. So this got me thinking what would be the perfect technology elective? If you had unlimited budget and flexibility, what would you teach to 6,7,8 graders? I haven’t written the description yet for […]
I’ve been having problems with Tim Lauer’s feed for awhile now and thought maybe Tim was the latest victim of the China filter. But today the feed started working again, so I’m back reading Education/Technology. Tim posted about a comment he found on iTunes when looking for podcasts. Tim came across a recording of The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and […]
Time got away from me today. But here is what I consider my PD for the week. Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk BlogDoin’ something about DOPA (and all the links that go with it!)Interview questions David Warlick’s 2 cents worth Blog Why Kids Blog The Cost of Information Christopher Harris (Infomancy )School Library 2.0 http://www.overduemedia.com/ If you’re a librarian and not […]