At this time of year I love reading everyone’s wrap up of the previous year. Highlight, lowlight, best of. I am not usually one to write that sort of thing, and if you look back over my year of blogging I haven’t been one to write much at all.…
Roman Architecture in Minecraft
The caldarium in a Roman bath |
Last year, as our school began its 1:1 BYOL program in the 7th grade, I had the opportunity to redesign our Latin IA course to incorporate technology within the Latin program. In doing so, I redeveloped our introductory level curriculum around thematic “modules” that are each split between core content work and a project devoted on some cultural component, e.g.…
Openings – An Introduction for Adopting Open Textbooks
Hi, I’m Sally Wilson, the Web Services Librarian at Ryerson University in Toronto. My web presence consists of a wide range of accounts, most of which were set up as experiments. The ones I use most often for work and learning are my Twitter account, @swilson416, my Google Plus account, and this blog.…
To help or not to help…during #GeniusHour
Every month we have a fantastic chat on twitter using the #geniushour hashtag. Incredible educators from around the globe join in and in traditional Q1, A1 format we discuss a hot topic that has to do with Genius Hour. October’s chat was “To what extent do you help students during Genius Hour?”
…Gather your friends. Time to plan the festivities #msloc430 open
Originally posted on Exploring Innovations in Networked Work and Learning:
We’ve opened a new Google Community – MSLOC430 Enterprise Social Networking – to start gathering together as we approach the official start on Jan. 25 of our six-week open section of #msloc430.…
Life in Links 2015-01-11
Some links I’ve Pinboarded this week:
- New Clues 121 thoughts about the internet by David Weinberger and Doc Searls two of the original cluetrain authors. Text released as Creative Commons 0 with a JSON file which lets folk mess around, here is my contribution: Give me a clue which was quite good fun (for me at least).
Immanent Mappings or Transcendent Tracings?
I thought I might be finished talking about prepositions and meaning, but more ideas keep coming that inch me closer to talking about the desires of prepositions.
In my last post, I argued that the meanings of words—perhaps the meanings of all words, but certainly the meanings of prepositions—is context-bound.…
Immanent Mappings or Transcendent Tracings?
I thought I might be finished talking about prepositions and meaning, but more ideas keep coming that inch me closer to talking about the desires of prepositions.In my last post, I argued that the meanings of words—perhaps the meanings of all words, but certainly the meanings of prepositions—are context-bound.…
Old dog, meet new trick
I’m a little scared to estimate the following number: how many times I’ve welcomed students to the first class of the term. It’s around 40, I think. Over the years, I’ve changed what I say and do in that first class.…
2014 Look Back in Number
My last post was review of my 2014 on Flickr, this is a quick list of some of my other online lives in 2014:
John’s World Wide Wall Display, this blog
57 blog post here this year. My favourite is probably RSS Serendipity.…