This post is in response to a comment on my last post which went something like this: As I read your list I went back and forth agreeing with you. Do you ever question if it is not how we do PD but the audience that we have hired and …
Right now, we are asking teachers to learn in an unfamiliar and, many times, unintuitive way. Right now, we are asking teachers to teach themselves without any connection to a network. Right now, we are asking teachers to be experts in course creation without seeing any real examples of good …
I am pleased to announce the following features within the first prototype at http://speedgeeklearning.com: 57 Videos of Ignite Presentations from around the United States (Boulder, NYC, San Fransisco, Columbus, and many others) 8 Different Sessions answering attempting to answer the following questions: What is your life story? What does it …
I sent this out to all of the interested parties via e-mail today, but I know that a lot more people are following along, so here is the update on SpeedGeek Learning: We have new logo choices: So far, the consensus has been that the first one is the right …
Sharing content has become easy. Video has become easy. Networking has become easy. Meaning is still hard. Context is still hard. Perspective is still hard. I don’t want to do the easy things. They do not have value and aren’t interesting. Now that I have outlined the three things that …
I have it on some very good authority that geeks are very passionate people. We seem to take much more upon ourselves just so that we can get something to work. We dial down into the minutae. We play around with things that other people seemingly have no time for. …
I have helped to build many things that I am proud of: The Academy of Discovery eDCSD: Douglas County Online Education Discovery Utopias Discovery -Isms This blog and Podcast I am proud of them because they added something to the conversation. They have created learning experiences and connections for many …
As we meet to talk about bringing all tools under one roof, as we start to work toward a single solution, as we start to use the same language to discuss learning, as we get on the same page with professional development models, as we create in the same formats, …
This is the first time in a few years that I did not attend NECC virtually. I have never attended physically, but I have anticipated all of the thinking and writing that happens during this conference. This year, however, I am on vacation. I have not taken a vacation from …
I was really excited about revising my session from Educon 2.1 for TIE 2009. This is how it went (Including the presentation, the screencasts, the podcast for planning, and the twitter archive): The On-Button Theory of Collaboration: All of the best collaborations I have been a part of have started …