It’s time to face the facts Facebook is the new Google It has become both a noun and a verb With over 400 million users it is the largest social-network on the web Everyone, including parents and teachers are already using it Parents are getting younger……they get it Facebook has replaced e-mail for many people Facebook has more privacy settings […]
As I started talking about in my last post, we’re in the process of setting every high school student up with a blog to use as an e-portfolio. To help you wrap your head around why we’re using blogs as our container for this, I suggest downloading and reading the Free PDF I produced at the end of last year. […]
(Scribefire, my blogging platform finally updated to work with Firefox Beta 4 so now I’m back!) I had the most incredible experience today. First of all I’m loving working with the high school kids. They just ‘get it’. I don’t have to explain things at a very deep level and we can just fly through the technology stuff and get […]
Tomorrow marks the start of a new school year. My job title might have changed but the focus remains the same. How do we prepare student for today’s digital world? I had a chance last week to introduce myself to the high school staff. It happened to be right after a discussion on cell phones in the classroom. A discussion […]
One of my biggest challenges this year is going to help the High School as a whole find some common ground on expectations for class work and interaction using our Moodle site. We use Moodle as an extension of the classroom. A place to handout work, to turn in assignments, and to have discussions via forms and chats. This will […]
Everyone has their signs for when summer is over and a new school year is upon us. For me that sign is a 17+ hour trip from Seattle back to Bangkok. Plenty of time to change your state of mind and a clear sign that the new school year is just around the corner. This summer while in the States […]
Two great birthday gifts came my way today via LuLu.com and Amazon.com. First LuLu.com is giving everyone 15% off the purchase of Reach meaning it now cost $8.14 through August 15th. Secondly Reach is now available via Amazon.com. I’m still working on the Kindle and iPad edition…shooting for August with those. If you happened to get in on the free download of […]
(Cross Posted on November Learning) When it comes to keynote speakers, nobody can ever match the line-up that the November Learning team puts together for BLC. Once again an amazing line up of thinkers outside of K-12 Education stretching us to think where we need to be taking kids and schools. Mitch Resnick opened the conference with a very simple […]
I have 30 minutes before I leave for the airport and head back to Seattle for what’s left of my summer vacation. As I reflect on this years ISTE conference a couple things come to mind. WiFi:A HUGE shout out to the organizers and the Convention Center. By far this has been the best WiFi access at any ISTE conference […]