Year: 2007
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Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments by Alan November
These are my notes from session 3 at the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai with Alan November. I am recording this session with permission from Alan and will post it here later as a podcast. – you had to construct your own learning – you thought you knew how to do something, but via a…
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Nuggets from Learning 2.0 in Shanghai (1)
Often the most useful takeaways from educational conferences (for me) are the websites which are mentioned during and after sessions by attendees as well as presenters. Here are some of my “nuggets” from the Learning 2.0 conference so far! ZoomIt by Mark Russinovic is a free application for Windows-based computers which provides visual accessibility features…
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NCLB is a symptom and not a root problem
Gary Stager always challenges me with my thinking whenever I have an opportunity to visit with him or read his work. This evening prior to the kick-off panel discussion for the Learning 2.0 conference in Shanghai, Gary shared the idea that NCLB is really a symptom of bigger problems we have in education, rather than…
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A great start to Learning 2.0
Will exaggerated just a bit…. I actually just wrote 1 blog post and completed a partial podcast on the plane… my laptop battery juice didn’t let me do much more on our 13 and 3 hour flights to Tokyo and Shanghai! It was a long blog post tho, so I probably should have chunked it…
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Organic grocery store surprises in Shanghai
After lunch today we explored some of the stores around our hotel in Pudong, Shanghai, China. We found quite a few surprises at an organic grocery store! I recorded some comments about these on a VoiceThread this afternoon: I’m publishing our photos to both a Flickr set as well as a .Mac photo gallery. I…
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Hello from Shanghai!
We had a good night sleep after finally arriving in China last night (it was morning “body time” from North America) and are ready for our first full day. I recorded a few thoughts on nine different images with VoiceThread, to share some of the things we’ve seen and noticed so far on our trip…
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Working behind the great firewall of China
Well, after about 24 hours of travel time we’ve arrived safety in Shanghai, China, for the Learning 2.0 conference! Our local time is exactly 12 hours opposite US Eastern Time– a clear sign we’ve literally come halfway around the planet. I spoke with my parents over Skype this evening (in China) and morning (for them)…
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Stitching transformative social networking experiences and impactful professional development
It may be a little silly to try and talk about “best practices” when it comes to Twitter, because the technology is so new and people are still inventing uses for it. I’m certainly not nearly as active a “twit” as some out there, but based on my limited experiences to date there is no…
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Entroute to Shanghai
I’m afraid I am going to become addicted to Animoto. I timed “image upload to published movie” time for the following Animoto movie, and it was 14 minutes, 13 seconds. This included uploading 20 images from my hard drive to Flickr using the Flickr image uploader as a new set, selecting that image set in…
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No time to make a video? No problem with Animoto!
I am constantly amazed by the variety and high quality of the videos created by Marco Torres and his student videographers. I would love to have access to Final Cut Studio Pro, the hardware required to run it, and to have the knowledge and expertise required to use many of the special effects Marco’s student…