Image via Wikipedia I have had multiple meetings this week around the topic of online assessments. Much to my surprise (well, not really), it looks like there is a lot of passion behind creating, hosting, and using assessments effectively. The needs of our district, as far as I can tell, …
Although this post will not go extremely in depth into the pedagogical implications of twitter, it will take a look at a new Twitter application called Nambu and explore whether or not it is getting us closer to a view of twitter that has less and less to do with …
In a post from a few days ago, a reader of this blog asked a very simple question: I would ask why are they less willing and who are the “they”? You often refer to asking the right questions and so I would encourage you to ask Who and Why …
I was at a restaurant this morning with my family and my wife’s fingers were getting stickier and stickier from the leaky maple syrup container. After a while she started looking for some water to wash them off with. Her water cup was empty but the condensation on the outside …
For one year when I was younger, I took private swimming lessons. This was in the stage after I had learned all of the basics with a bunch of other kids my age. We could all do the breaststroke, tread water, and do relay races for extended periods of time. …
I just got word that the Chief Information Officer for Douglas County Schools (my school district) is now on Twitter (http://twitter.com/rmweldon). Allong with both McCains, I am the third person he is following at the moment. I guess I’m not sure why it matters, but there is this small part …
I had a lot of conversation today about pilot initiatives within a larger institution. it seems as though in each project that I take part in, there is reason enough to get a small group of (semi) dedicated people together who will try something out and report back on their …
Image by veganstraightedge via Flickr The following is an excerpt from an e-mail that I sent out earlier to a group of people in my district who are interested in using social media to get all people within the district to be a part of the decision making process (good …
So, this came across my tweetdeck today: http://sites.google.com/site/goomoodleikiog/Home It outlines in very specific terms one way of integrating Google Docs, Moodle, Wikis and Blogs. I say very specific because one of the general hallmarks of the 2.0 version of teachers is that we tend to all be pretty good at …
I was given the task recently of coming up with 15 questions to ask a information technology director candidate during an interview. While I missed the window during which this information would have been useful to the person who solicited my help (moving is really hard), I would like to …