Feb
19
This is the post I wish you didn’t need, but you do, hopefully one day you won’t. Plan for plenty of sessions broken into three parts, video, vocabulary, question practice. Find an always available teacher An always available teacher is one nice enough to leave digital breadcrumbs for you to review whenever you need to. …
Oct
19
Infographics, the latest way to present a lot of information to our repatterned brains that have shorter attention spans but love visual stimulation and images. See some fine examples at vizthink. I recently got an email asking me to share an info graphic on this blog. The graphic is about backpacks and how heavy they …
Oct
12
Loving this video, for many reasons, he teaches chemistry, he flips, he uses camtasia, and the students are standing up learning, the best kind of combination!
Oct
11
Well Paced A course can consist of a series of emails, a series of blogposts published to a private blog for participants. A well-paced e-course will have a regular schedule, once a day, or for longer e-courses once a week. Posting or emailing at the same time each day ensures that participants soon get used …
Mar
29
Blue Square, Green Square, Red Square, Yellow Square. If you too are saddened by the continuing events in Japan and the continuing worsening of the situations both human and man-made the you may be interested in this. I’ve spent some time this week discussing and trying to process the information presented on this graphic from …
Oct
12
This week I will be mostly listening to: How to embed a netvibes rss feed into your blog or webpage:
Oct
05
Dear TED, Please edit a clean version so teachers can show this in schools. Thx.
May
11
I’m running out of post it notes… I was inspired to finally read tribes after stumbling into an elluminate session with Seth Godin hosted by Steve Hargadon. The archive of the session can be found here In the last paragraph of the book, Seth asks “spread the word”. I intend to hand it on to my …
Jan
13
After a tip off on twitter (thanks @thomasdaccord) I found out Daniel Pink was on a quickie book tour and was going to be at Borders in Boston Wed Jan 6th at 1pm. Having enjoyed AWNM and Johnny Bunko-I’m so there, methinks. Tosh, I have an online meeting scheduled for PLC work at the exact same …
Jan
03
Amazing things that happened in 2009 Educon even only virtually Keeping up with my blog Staff technology showcase at school Henry Jenkins at MIT in May Going to NECC in June in Washington Meeting many pln peeps and tweeps irl Asking a question via twitter to Malcolm Gladwell on live radio It was fun to be included …
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