January 2009
32 posts published in January 2009.
- Connecting is the hardest…Connecting is the hardest thing to do in learning. If you don’t believe me, ask a student how many times they have received meaningful feedback…
- When enough is too much…Image by Getty Images via Daylife I want to be able to depend upon all of the spaces that I choose to learn and work in. I want to know that they…
- Expanding on The On ButtonImage via Wikipedia I received an e-mail from an attendee of my educon presentation, The On Button: Instant and Always on collaboration. She was…
- Create something every day.One of the big revelations for me at educon was that creating things is the only way to sustain change. You cannot influence things to change. You…
- The secret to a great meeting after educon.1. Believe in what you are saying. 2. Own what you know. 3. Reference the hope that you feel many times. 4. Reach. 5. Be able to back up your…
- I have never thought so much or slept so little…So, I have been the youngest person in the room ever since I finished college. This is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing in the fact…
- Educon 2.1- The On Button: Instant and Always-on CollaborationAll of the best collaborations I have been a part of have started off with a lot of questions. Not “how do we get it done” questions, but rather…
- The educon 2.1 opening panel.Idea one: The purpose of school is not to churn out a finished product. Innovation doesn’t come from a place of completion. Idea two: If we mean…
- Educon 2.1: Day OneI will be keeping my notes here, mostly, but you can also follow my twitter stream below for more notes. Check out the EduCon wiki for more info.
- Networks are cities.I am on my way to educon 2.1 right now, looking out into the night (don’t worry, I am using my phone in airplane mode). For some reason there are…
- DCSD Conversations 01.21.09Here is the second installment of the Douglas County School District’s conversations around learning and technology, which is cross-posted here.…
- When a phone isn't a phoneImage by incurable_hippie via Flickr I wrote the draft of this yesterday, so I’m pretty sure it still counts for my writing a blog post every day…
- Why don't our students create the Feltron report every year?Image via Wikipedia When I think about all of the ways in which students are measured and monitored, it strikes me that very little of the…
- Every login that can be eliminated, should be.Image via Wikipedia I have been thinking a lot about this concept in preparation for The On Button: Instant and Always-On Collaboration, but I…
- Can you graph a good school?Image via Wikipedia I hadn’t planned on blogging about this again this soon, but this post from Graham Wegner got me thinking about it again. In…
- Schools can look like anything: All things to all kids.Image via Wikipedia Today I was lucky enough to go and visit three Hope Online Sites in Denver. If you are unfamiliar with this program, basically…
- How did Kaplan beat us to it? Or, Who's getting rich off education?Image by Firesign via Flickr So, I was just watching some TV with my 6 month old son while my wife catches a nap, and I saw this ad for Kaplan: I…
- Should kids be excited about Standardized Testing?Image by woodleywonderworks via Flickr I have been given the task of trying to find ways to pump up kids who are not all that excited about…
- Revising learning…Image via Wikipedia One of the large tasks that I am doing right now is taking all of the courses that our online school taught during the first…
- Everything must be scalable… Making me obsolete.Image via Wikipedia I would like to explore if only for a moment the idea that we are all in a major budget crunch. As much as I would like to…
- Until it becomes easy for everyone…I keep on thinking that because I am learning more and more how to get the most out of my phone, my browser, my email, and my time that others…
- House hunting is School huntingImage by McMorr via Flickr This is really my post from yesterday. I was just too tired from the search to post it. My wife and I were looking at…
- It’s incidental, not integral, if you know what I mean…Image via Wikipedia This is one of my favorite quotes from Harold and Maude, which is one of my favorite movies. It is from the scene where Maude…
- DCSD Conversations: A new beginningIn an effort to have some of the conversations that I engage in regularly on Twitter and in the Edublogosphere within my home School District, I…
- TwitpressI was having a little trouble with getting wordpess to update my twitter account when I post from my phone. I think that things should just work,…
- Reader where you actually read things…As much as I can before educon 2.1, I will be expanding upon the ideas of my topic, The On Button: Instant and Always on Collaboration. While, the…
- You say you want a revolution…I really enjoyed reading Clarence Fisher’s recent post on why no one he knows has been fired over advocating connected learning…
- A list of tags…The EdTechTalk delicious site has a wealth of relevent tags. It has so many in fact, that it may be THE resource for tags about Educational…
- A wiki spreadsheet.I have to say that up until recently I didn’t see what was so great about spreadsheets. I have been using them for years to analyze student…
- Feeds in a workflow.For as useful as they are for aggregating information, rss feeds are not all that easy to put into one’s workflow. You have to make a point of…
- Everything as a feed.I am now coming to understand feeds and rss as the muscles that move the web. They are the tissue that seems to push and pull all of the…
- The grand challenge.Well, I let another year go by without challenging myself to blog more. I let reflections go until tomorrows that never came. I left words and…