Oct
31
Creativity is messy, doodling is good. Peter Reynolds, nominated entrepreneur of the year from fablevision has given 16 year olds everywhere the ultimate excuse (especially the one sitting in a messy room upstairs at my house). I heard the good news during my massCUE conference highlight- a session with Peter Reynolds talking about creativity and imagination and …
Oct
27
Conference Crashing 101 Massachusetts Computer using educators annual conference takes place this week. To have one place to monitor, listen and watch what is going on I created a public page on netvibes that monitors the tags masscue and masscue09. As soon as actual attendees post online via twitter, flickr, delicious, diigo, and blogs, it will …
Oct
27
The latest Digital Literacy Challenge features Hippocampus.org . This can be a real timesaver for teachers of the subjects listed. This is a one stop additional multimodal learning resource for their class. For the challenge, students are asked to choose a topic from the menu They are then required to find the list of videos aligned to …
Oct
19
It continues to amaze me how the learning network that I am immersed in seems to have a life of its own. This was the conversation it was having this weekend. I was reading this brave post by Lisa Thumann “I just don’t like technology” about how to deal with a comment from a professional …
Oct
09
This youtube video about using twitter in the college classroom came to my attention from a retweet by @edutopia to student’s blogpost at Butler Collision Repair Blog This is really worth taking the time to watch. It explains how twitter can be used to encourage deeper student participation in a discussion when they are in …
Oct
04
Watching my twitter feed and email account, I have been saving up these notices about free upcoming online professional development and I am excited by how my calendar is so full of great opportunities to learn. I thought it would be useful to consolidate them into one post and share it out. This is low-hanging …
Oct
03
Attended a free webinar from O’Reilly media Thursday hosted by Dan Meyer, a math teacher from Santa Cruz. The seminar was boldly title “How to save Math Education” Even if you are not a math teacher, this is talking about getting students to think…and applies to all teachers really. It’s just hidden in a math …
Oct
01
Snippets of a learning conversation… “I’m not ready to get my black belt, I don’t know everything I need to. I don’t want to take the test, I’m scared.” She’s 12, do we push her to do something she doesn’t want to do. No. We made sure that she understood this.. She didn’t have to …
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