Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Today I had two really good conversations about what is truly important in creating a learning environment for a large organization. We talked about collaborative tools, LMS‘s, project-specific resources, among others. We talked about what were absolute requirements for our institutions (our district …
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 in the future, invested in the past, invested in keeping kids in schools, invested in unschooling children. We are invested in so many things, …
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 and modem speeds. He was the one who made being geeky okay. Anyway, this post is for him because he …
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 today. Ask a teacher how many parents know exactly what goes on in their classes. I want to do this connection every single day and …
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 are there when I need them. Would it be too much to ask that the Learning Management System …
Image via Wikipedia I received an e-mail from an attendee of my educon presentation, The On Button: Instant and Always on collaboration. She was asking about one of the items in the presentation, in which I described adding an opml file (which was created by a Live Search OPML creator). …
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 have to create what you would like to see and make the change real for people. Concretely, I mean that every student, every …
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 reaching and hope with the network that brought us all together.
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 that I can claim that I never taught without blogging. It is a curse in the fact that my life …
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