2009

February 2009

29 posts published in February 2009.

  • The Missing Community for Google Apps?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…
  • How do you take attendance (or engagement)?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.…
  • Laying down the gauntlet…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…
  • The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration?Image via Wikipedia Even though I haven’t used Moodle as much as WordPress and Wikispaces in my own teaching and learning, I have installed it…
  • A coalition of the willing: Online Learning in ColoradoImage via Wikipedia One of the biggest things that I learned from CoLearning 2009, was that if the conversations about change in education are…
  • I believe in burning out.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…
  • What's the point?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…
  • A Post on Remixing that bears repeating.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…
  • Scaling up a flawed system…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…
  • Asking students questionsImage by Getty Images via Daylife This Saturday, at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation, we will have the privilege of hosting a student panel.…
  • Firefox Universal Uploader, a way to make Google Docs an e-portfolio or document backupSorry for the long title, but I don’t need to talk all that much about this particularly cool tool. I just wanted to convey just how excited I am…
  • Elitism in the edublogosphere, or EdublarbificationImage via Wikipedia My wife and I were joking last night about just how much the edubloging community likes to think it is the greatest thing…
  • Almost the same.Image via Wikipedia Whenever I see somone talk about their brand new LMS, CMS, or collaborative learning product, I tend to be very skeptical. No…
  • The Collaborative InstinctImage via Wikipedia It is so strange how links seem to be related to one another when you have a single idea in your head. The tweets seem to come…
  • Gmail Reboot, or the only mail client you will ever needAlthough I have been a member of gmail since the good old days of invitation-only status: But, up until this week, I did not use it for anything…
  • Learning Networks and PD, the movieImage by Targuman via Flickr Although I didn’t really want to string this piece out for two posts, I think that thinking things through is really…
  • A questionThis is a really interesting question. First, if you are looking for engaging videos to show for professional development, I would look…
  • Learning Networks and Professional DevelopmentImage by superkimbo in BKK via Flickr I am in the process of putting together a presentation that will be used to convince others that Learning…
  • The On Button ArchiveWhile I was doing some searching over at Tweetgrid (my absolute favorite way of looking at twitter in real-time), I came across these notes from…
  • Okay, No tools without ideas and no ideas without toolsImage by Felix42 contra la censura via Flickr My last post was excited about the fact that my district is now interested in pursuing the idea of…
  • Bigger than pedagogyThe last two posts that I have written have talked about ideas vs. Tools. I didn’t realize it until after I had written them that I had not used…
  • Getting excited about an idea, not a toolSo, for a while in our district has been very excited about certain tools that they have invested in. At various times, they have been excited…
  • Whenever I feel like…Whenever I feel like I’ve run into a wall in online school I start thinking about all the possibilities for communicating and things just seems to…
  • Bringing ideas and people together.The IT department is an interesting beast in any school distrct. It has so many good ideas for how to get things done and it has the technical…
  • Technological Musical ChairsImage by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Today I had two really good conversations about what is truly important in creating a learning environment for…
  • I learn with other learners.For a long time, I have been kind of snobby about deciding where I can learn. I had made the decision that I could only learn when I am with…
  • Another story of learning…Although I have already written my This I Believe a few years ago and you can even hear it if you wish, but I have been asked to consider the…
  • The power of opening your eyes.When I look out onto the learning landscape, I see people who are heavily invested. In making sure that students know what they need to, invested…
  • Why twitter matters (for Tim).Image via CrunchBase Tim was the best man at my wedding. He was my friend before I had any others. He was the one who helped me to understand IRC…