Here we are in 2015. A year in which schools no longer buy sets of encyclopedias for the classroom and then the thing that replaced it….Wikipedia, we tell students they can’t use or trust. As I have talked to educators during trainings on wikipedia over the last month or so, I realize when I ask them why you can’t trust […]
It seems like forever since I’ve sat down and blogged…..and yet at the same time it seems I spend all day blogging. Between school, COETAIL, and students I’m spending more time then ever in WordPress. But tonight I’m closing everything else to reflect on some articles lately that I can’t get out of my head. Some rights reserved by nojhan […]
My favorite part of the CoETaIL program that Kim and I run is coming up this semester. The 5th and final course for the certificate includes teachers having to apply what they’ve learned in the first 4 courses in their classroom. Last week I met with Donna Hurst one of our EAL and IB TOK teachers and we hashed out […]
So I woke up this morning to find that my post last night on school’s taking control of their profiles has started a little conversation. I gave a talk on this topic to educators and administrators at the EARCOS conference in March that scared a few, made a few jump into action, and others left shaking their heads not knowing […]
Who is controlling your school’s online profile? In my presentation to educators I usually say: You need to take control of your online presence, because if you don’t…someone else will! Do schools have someone looking after their online profile? Do we need to create a new position in the communication office? I just got done editing my school’s wikipedia entry […]
Yesterday in my presentation I talked about how educators and schools view Wikipedia. Where some schools have blocked the site and other schools have not blocked the site. How some teachers are allowing students to use it as a research site, while others are not. This is still in debate, but I think we’re missing the bigger picture of what […]
Our web designer here at school just e-mailed this to me. Gollum Browser works best with Firefox and opens and overlays a layer on Firefox that allows you to quickly and easily search Wikipedia articles. If Wikipedia is blocked at your school is this away around it? I was impressed with the speed. Wikipedia is blocked here in China, but […]