Guest blogger, Cheryl Oakes, reporting for duty! Dear administrator, I am writing after an exhausting year of instructing my students. I want to thank you for hiring me and keeping me in this position. I have been teaching this same content for the past 5, 10, 15 years ( you choose). Each year it gets
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I am writing a similar disclaimer as Jen Wagner did just recently. Thanks Wes for allowing me to be a guest blogger. With a 3 day span I am really challenged to produce a daily post. Well, here goes. These ideas and opinions are mine and do not reflect Wes’ thinking on these subjects. Dear
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For my final guest I’d like to introduce George Bush singing a U2 song (What would the Tonight Show have been without a musical guest). The following is not intended to be a political statement but rather an example of a mashup. It is indeed a powerful example. With tools available to students today, this
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Thank you Gerry, always funny stuff. Even Stephen Downes has appreciated your humor. My next guest is a middle school teacher from Bengough, Saskatchewan. Peter has been exploring the use of social software in his classroom for the past year. I sat down with Peter and asked him a few questions about the changes in
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Okay, I’m going to stick with the talk show and Johnny Carson analogy I used in my first post. My first guest is a comedian from Canada. He’s a former educator and recently appeared on Last Comic Standing. Please welcome Mr. Gerry Dee: BTW Wes, I added a humor section. He’ll never have me back!
I’d like to welcome Dean Shareski to the guest blogger author’s chair here at “Moving at the Speed of Creativity.” Dean is going to share a few posts in the next couple of days while I’m “off-blog.”
First off, I would like to say “Thank you†to Wes Fryer for trusting me with his blog over the next few days. Anything said in the next few days are my thoughts and observations only – and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the original blog owner!! (Smiles – I had
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I’d like to welcome Jennifer Wagner to author’s chair here on Moving at the Speed of Creativity! Jenn will be guest blogging here for the next few days.
[Day 3 of my guest blogging…] U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the Reading First corruption scandal, challenges to the reauthorization of NCLB, and blowback from the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, apparently Secretary Spellings also is receiving
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eSchoolNews has a fantastic letter from the editor regarding the federal government’s recent evaluation of learning software for schools. The editor lambasts reporters’ overblown headlines, inappropriate and overbroad conclusions, and failure to adequately criticize and critically reflect upon the report and its accompanying publicity material. There was a recent dust-up at Dangerously Irrelevant as well
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I’ve got high schools on my mind. A high school teacher told me recently that her school allows students to try harder courses than they normally might take. For example, students might sign up for an Honors English class instead of a regular English class or an AP Government class instead of a normal Government class. These
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[Thanks, Wesley, for the opportunity to be a guest blogger at Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll do my best to live up to the challenge of blogging for a larger audience than I typically get at Dangerously Irrelevant.] One of the key beliefs of many edubloggers and educational technology enthusiasts is that digital
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I’d like to welcome Dr. Scott McLeod to the guest blogger “author’s chair” on Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll be presenting in Holland, Michigan several times later this week, and Scott is going to share his thoughts and perspectives here in my absence. Scott is the author of the outstanding blog “Dangerously Irrelevant,”
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Many thanks to Glen Bull for taking over the author’s chair here the past several days when I was offline!
Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) suggests that each discipline offers unique opportunities to integrate technology into the curriculum. For example, history teachers and their students can now directly access the documents and artifacts that collectively comprise the historic record – letters, photographics, maps, illustrations, historic accounts in newspapers, etc. Projects such as Television News of
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The TED (Technology / Entertainment / Design) conference is an invitation-only event that costs $6,000 to attend. An amazing and diverse group of thinkers present — folks like Ray Kurzweil (The Age of Spiritual Machines), Neil Gershenfend (Low-cost Fabrication), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Founder) Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point), and Stephen Levitt (Freakanomics). Fortunately you don’t
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The most recent issue of the CITE Journal has just been published. This online, peer-reviewed journal focuses on technology and teaching. It is jointly sponsored by five teacher educator associations representing science education, math education, language arts, social studies, and educational technology. Truth in advertising: as editor, I’m probably biased about its value. That having
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