Thursday was “Take your Child to Work” day. At one point during the day, I sat in a meeting with our school counselor and her adorable son. He honored me by letting me sit next to him as he slipped on his “Beats” headphones and pulled out his Ipod.…
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Loading ...I loved watching everyone’s videos. It was a wonderful reminder of the fact that everyone learns differently and we have to honour that, and be mindful of the diverse ways in which we all learn when we plan for our students.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Planning for the school Open Night usually involves, among other things, collecting samples of student work for display. As increasing amounts of this work is submitted electronically, often taking the form of a keynote presentation, or in junior classes, an Educreations or iMovie presentation, this is no longer straight forward.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...My title for today’s post is what I’ve been preaching these days about technology. I’ve been telling teachers who are overwhelmed by technology to choose one thing and try it. Share with your students that you are trying something. See if they have better ideas about what you are doing.… Continue reading
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Time for another MOOC. ETMOOC was incredibly interesting and valuable, so when I received an email about Mozilla’s Teach the Web course, I couldn’t help but sign up. Topics to be discussed include: Making as Learning, Connected Learning, Open Web, Webmaking as Learning.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...So I am about to embark on another mooc type endeavour, with Mozilla’s Teach the Web. I’ll see how it turns out. I am already feeling a little anxious because of course I’ve forgotten how to connect my blog to an aggregator (and the assumption that it is easy is to figure out ticks me off!… Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here at the Faculty eCommons, we’re constantly on the prowl for ideas and tools that make learning timely and relevant for the busy online community. We were thrilled to find another idea in George Couros’s …… Continue reading
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Below are a photos of the administrative and teaching blocks of the Uyole Agriculture Training Institute and Uyole Agriculture Research Center, just a few kilometers outside of Mbeya City in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, When I lived and worked there in the early 1980s, it was one of the premier training and research centers in the country.… Continue reading
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Having done a considerable amount of research on student learning and digital learning tools to build my capstone experience for my graduate work, during and prior to my edTech MOOC experience, has solidified the idea of open education for me. I can imagine what Buckminster Fuller, a strong influencer in my thinking and work, might say about all this connectivist methodology.…
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