This week, week two of the Headless DS106 Bootcamp, one of our tasks was to listen a recording of a talk that Gardner Campbell gave at OpenEd 2009, entitled “No Digital Facelifts“. Although many great ideas percolated through this presentation, I decided to focus on one small portion – what we need to do to get beyond the digital facelift in education. …
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- A sunny and hot Friday; September 6, 2013
- Rachel’s Challenge presentation is today; we have one every 3 years so all 6, 7, 8 graders experience it.
- 6th graders have heard team teachers say: It’s powerful and moving; all 3 team teachers cry by the end of it.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My first step in this assignment was to google the title “Say it like the Peanut Butter”. What allusion to popular culture had I failed to grasp and what key piece of information was I missing? Now I know how to pronounce the word “gif”.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On Friday I made my way back up north to attend the MELSIG event at the University of Huddersfield. As expected the conference was full of inspiration. Although all of the presentations and workshops were excellent the one that really stood out for me was Hayley Atkinson’s (@LadyColottes) presentation on ’Designing and Evaluating E-Book Resources‘.…
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My laptop, my students’ own device, a headset, markers, sticky notes, papers and more papers, my glasses and coffee to start
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Note: I wrote this short blog post for the Jive Software community. It was subsequently picked by and republished by DZone. It’s my thinking on whether there is in fact some connection between personal learning networks (PLNs) and social business.…
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The last book I read was Ameila Bedelia by Peggy Parish. It is a children’s story about a maid whose character, in my opinion, parallels The Golden Girls’ Rose Nyland played by Betty White.…
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This summer while traveling to Castle Rock, CO, and Tyler, TX, my wife and daughter introduced me to Chick Fil-A, a restaurant chain that specializes in chicken sandwiches and such.…
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