I read the call for proposals today and the first thing I did was run over to some of the people that were at my LAN parties last year and said…we’re on! Now just have to come up with what to present and how to present it before June 18th. I encourage everyone to throw your hat in the ring […]
O.K. so I don’t know how to give myself a haircut, but I have an office now in Second Life. Located on the second floor of the C.A.V.E. (Center for Advanced Virtual Education) Thanks to Kevin Jarrett (KJ HAX) for inviting me in and for Doug Johnson (BlueSkunk Johnson) for sharing his office space with me. Sunday morning I woke […]
http://twitku.com/ let’s you post to Twitter and Jaiku at the same time. Not sure how this is different than setting Jaiku up to import your twitter feeds like I’ve already done…but a great way to see everyone on both networks. Twitter ToolboxLet’s you see who you’re friends are, who is following you and who you are following but are not […]
The little experiment of mine called teentek.com just produced its first video podcast. Now some of you might be wondering why this is so amazing to me. I mean we’re 3 1/2 weeks until school’s out and they just now produced their first video podcast? Because the class sees new students every quarter (8 weeks or 20-40 minute classes if […]
My Superintendent: “I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.†This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a weeks. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment. However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we are trying […]
Our laptop has been running slower and slower lately and so over the weekend I decided it was time for a reformat. I have found that Window’s machines need one about every two years anyway, and so it was time. Instead of reinstalling Windows XP, I decided I was going to load Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP to dual boot. […]
So techszewski who will be joining our team here next year sent me a link last week that I’m just not getting to. The homepage alone is enough to scare most people: Chat in 3D Avatar mode? MSN Messenger is so Web 1.0 after seeing this. You create an avatar that can chat with these little chat bubbles floating above […]
A Study on how laptops hinder learning made the front page of The International Educator newspaper that comes out monthly to overseas educators and schools. Jason Welker wrote a great article at U Tech Tips about it. First of all, to call this a “study†of the use of laptops inschools is inappropriate. A study with a sample size of […]
There is nothing like starting your week off with an e-mail from a teacher that simple says: “Moodle is not working…do you know why?†And then spending the next four days worried that you can’t fix it. It has been one of those weeks that I’ve relied on ‘just in time learning’ and my network of information to help me […]
From George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge: Change is happening on two levels: …the context in which knowledge occurs, and …the flow and characteristics of knowledge itself. pg. 69 Our society is being restructured to align with knowledge. The barriers, inhibitors, obstacles, and unnecessary structures are giving away to models which permit effective knowledge creating, dissemination, communication, personalization, and flow. pg. 69 […]