I title this ‘Learning is Conversation v1.1Â’ because I think it goes very nicely with what John wrote titled Learning is Conversation. He posted his first, so IÂ’m calling mine v1.1 In the Professional Development course IÂ’m teaching using Moodle there have been some great conversations around information and moving teachers into the mind set of Connectivism learning, Connectivism teaching, […]
I have a meeting next week with my administration about flex scheduling of tech lab time. So, I thought I would put my thoughts to yÂ’all in the blogosphere to help me out and give me your thoughts on the following. I work in an elementary school and we are trying to move to what they call a “Flex Schedule” […]
The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone, anywhere with Internet access So tell me again this isnÂ’t about information. 🙂 Full […]
If you aren’t reading the news coming from techlearing.com I suggest you start. I saw this news today and wanted to give a personal congratulation to Mr. Mangus. Mr. Mangus has a completely textbook-less classroom and was honored by receiving the No Child Left Behind Act American Star of Teaching Award. Just how is the impact of a textbook-less classroom […]
A web site that I was unaware of just popped up on my radar screen. educause.edu A quick search for the word blog returned some great results. An informative site worth a look.
In the Moodle class I am running Alicia Lewis, a good friend, and co-instructor in the course, gave me a bad time about playing my beloved game Flight Simulator. This conversation started after reading Marc PenskyÂ’s “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” that I had the class read. I thought IÂ’d post my response to Alicia hereÂ…after all it is authentic information. […]
Some talk going on about edublog.org being blocked by servers. It isnÂ’t being blocked here in ChinaÂ…yet. What a great tool for educators and students. Built on the open-source WordPress blogging program the site is a great place for educators and students a like to get their blogs up and running. I use WordPress to run 3 blogging sites and […]
Great Wall Originally uploaded by jutecht. Back in Shanghai after 3 wonderful days in Beijing highlighted by a 4 hour walk on the Great Wall that both my wife and I are paying for today. I did not touch a computer or get on the Internet all 3 days, but felt more connected to history and the Earth then I […]
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating. My wife and I leave later today for Beijing to have Beijing Duck for our Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully IÂ’ll have some great pictures to share with you all when I return. All this talk about staff development has my head spinning, and I couldnÂ’t resist the temptation to pick up my thinking stick […]
The ‘millennials’ usher in a new era My friend just sent me this link. Go read it right now. I’m putting it here for my own reference. Some great quotes/research: By only their seventh birthday, most children in the United States will have talked on a cell phone, played a computer game and mastered a TV-on-demand device like TiVo, much […]