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 …
Sorry 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 about being able to drag and drop my documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and pdf’s into my google docs accounts. This will allow …
Image 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 since sliced bread, doing great things for kids and moving the conversation about learning on to greater things. When I first started blogging, she …
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 matter how good it is or how open the architecture is, if it doesn’t have the community built around it, it isn’t worth it. Drupal …
Image 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 together in a way that makes you think that “the network” pushes you into a certain direction, just so that …
Although 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 other than signing up for every web 2.0 service I could find and for giving people access to my google docs. I …
This is a really interesting question. First, if you are looking for engaging videos to show for professional development, I would look here:http://www.speedofcreativity.org/resources/videos-for-pd/ As for introducing the subject of engaging students with technology, I think that you would really have to find a good itch that you think all of …