Image via CrunchBase As I am working hard to roll out Google Apps for Education for our online school, I am struggling to find the community that supports it. With all of the great things that Google Apps has to offer, it is mind boggling that there wouldn’t be a …
Image by inju via Flickr When the students are directly in front of you, it is easy. You count up the number of kids and see just who they are. There you go: attendance. When you use wikis and blogs, but the kids are still staring at you during the …
Image via Wikipedia I am trying to create a learning environment worthy of my kids. That’s all. I am working feverishly every day so that by the time my kids need more education than I can provide at home, an environment will exist that I would be proud to show …
Even though I haven’t used Moodle as much as WordPress and Wikispaces in my own teaching and learning, I have installed it enough times to know what it does well and what it does not do so well. Moodle does a very good job of monitoring students, giving assessments/grades, providing …
Image via Wikipedia One of the biggest things that I learned from CoLearning 2009, was that if the conversations about change in education are easier to have with people around the world than they are to have with people around the state, there is something intensely wrong about that. It …
As much fun as I will have reflecting on CoLearning 2009, I am too burned out to do so tonight. I am too burned out on conversing with anyone but my wife about anything but my two children. And I am glad for this burn out. I am glad that …
I am sitting in a session at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation on Remixing in the classroom and I was drawn back to an activity that I did with my kids to teach them about remixing. I think that it allowed them to own the topic in a way that …
I am sitting in Anne Smith’s classroom listening to students talk about the ways in which students believe they are seen vs. the way they see themselves (her student teacher is actually teaching the class at the moment, however). I really enjoy listening to students talk about their own identities. …
Image via Wikipedia I wrote a single thing on the back of a paper at a meeting today: Scaling a system that exists vs. Creating a different system that includes networked learning. What I meant by this I am not exactly sure (nor can I talk about all of the …
Image by Getty Images via Daylife This Saturday, at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation, we will have the privilege of hosting a student panel. During which , we will be able to ask the burning questions of intelligent and engaged students. I didn’t realize it until today, but it is …