A couple of nights ago, I was watching Youtube videos with my 3yr old when she noticed a thumbnail of a video featuring my dad. She instantly yelled, “Pappou, Pappou, I want to see Pappou.” We began to watch the video and within seconds, she began to call directly to her grandfather. …
PLE Murder Mystery
On Thursday and Friday this week I was lucky enough to run two workshops at the PLE Conference held at Monash University. The PLE Conference is a two day conference held in two cities, Melbourne and Berlin. This year’s program, Personal Learning Environments: Learning and Diversity in the Cities of the Future, was full of presentations looking at the use of PLEs in education and examined the use of technology enhanced learning.…
SoundBrush for iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G, iPad (3rd generation), iPad Wi-Fi + 4G, iPad (4th generation), iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (4th generation), iPad mini and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular on the iTunes App Store
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Versal
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I’m kind of in love with this new course creator from Versal that focuses on doing rather than consuming. http://bit.ly/18SwVg7
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Piazza: Create a Support System to Enhance Students’ Learning Experience
In an online learning environment, instructors often use discussion boards to facilitate class Q&A. While discussion boards are excellent asynchronous tools for communication that promote critical thinking skills, they lack the structure and design to ……
Infinite Monkeys: Part III
Well here it is: My first app.
Feedback welcome!
I ended up making a document with links to my YouTube playlist and a number of blogs so that I could add some more information to the app. Publishing the app is very easy.…
Ben Wilkoff’s #GTACHI Submission
This is my history of my history with personalized learning environments and why I would like to become a part of the Google Teacher Academy in Chicago this summer.
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Summer is a great time for reflection
This week I had a lot of fun tinkering around online, thanks for the great ideas Open Spokes. I was trying out new ideas while reflecting on what I want to teach my kids.
I started out playing with the new haiku deck app… see the following link,
http://www.haikudeck.com/p/mQBhZc6BTC/what-i-hope-my-children-will-learn-from-me…
Infinite Monkeys: Part II
So yesterday I was writing about creating an app (short for software application) for teachers using MS Paint for Grade 1. I’m still working on it and since Kevin asked for a debrief on the software I thought I’d write another post on the process of building this app.…