I’ve been following the conversation that Doug Johnson of the Blue Skunk blog started a couple days ago and have been trying to formulate some response in my head other then “Well, just because it should be that way!” Doug takes on the age old question of creativity vs experimentation. Or in the educational world: Is education an art or […]
In order to change an educational institution we all know that you need to start at the top. A great article that you might want to pass on to your school board out of the American School Board Journal this month. Closing the ‘Reality Gap’ Just a taste of the article for you: Studies have shown that many of our […]
Had a chat with some middle school students last week and a tech savvy teacher who talks to her students about the latest and greatest technologies that the students are using. Word on the street is myspace and xanga are no longer cool. A 7th grade student told me: “It just got old!” Blogging at xanga.com was all the rave […]
I found this interesting today. The Washington Post ran this article today on Will Richardson along with articles here, here, and here about blogging. So in seeing how this whole connectivism thing works I wanted to see if The Thinking Stick was connected to the action. If you click on Will’s link in the article (1), which leads to Will’s […]
People sometimes apologize for talking about their families or personal lives on their blogs and I always wonder why. Our personal lives are what make us who we are, we are professionals, but hopefully we all have other lives as well. Lives that help keep use grounded in what is truly precious. I took a break from blogging over spring […]
Found netvibes via TechCrunch 10 day ago, and I must say so far I am very impressed. Basically you get to design your own homepage using RSS feeds. They do have some built in modules which are wonderful. I can monitor my gmail accounts, my POP3 accounts,and my writely documents all on one page. It allows you to import OPML […]
As I start looking forward to next year and my new position. I’ve been thinking about what are the basics that every middle school and high school student should have technology wise in the 06-07 school year? I can dream and say that every students should have a laptop, is that a want or a need? I’m looking for the […]
Received this e-mail today. How cool is it that I can be like Doug Johnson and have people requesting to use my material. Of course I’m no where near Doug’s prestige, but hey, it’s a start! The videos are part of a Web 2.0 series I’m doing for the teachers at my school. I have a blog called U Tech […]
I have to give a shout out to my hosting company. They have the best support of any web site I have every worked with. Their support site http://www.suresupport.com is amazing. The longest I’ve ever had to wait for a reply from them is 11 minutes. The reason why I’m giving them a shout now is over the year my […]
(Via Cool Cat Teacher blog) comes Blooking a term that is new to me, but means a blog in book form. Using a web site like Lulu you can take your blog entries and turn them into a book. This is powerful stuff. Not for me, but for students. Thinks about the authentic power this holds for student bloggers. You […]