Year: 2007
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Eric Langhorst shares on TeacherTube
Eric Langhorst has posted a great video to TeacherTube explaining his book blog project on “Guerrilla Season.” We need more teachers modeling and sharing their best practices with teaching via TeacherTube like Eric has done! I think we’re only getting glimpses of the power of these digital teaching resources. Great work Eric and students in…
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Ian Jukes shares thoughts on YouTube
Ian Jukes was probably the first person at an educational technology conference to really open my eyes to the power and potential of the digital world. I think I first attended the TCEA conference in 1997, and that was the first year I heard Ian speak. The most recent time was in June 2005 at…
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PBWikis ad-free for educators!
I continue to try and use a wide variety of read/write web tools, but at some point (and I’m not entirely sure how I arrive at this decision) I decide to “invest” in different web services and resources. Examples of these include del.icio.us, which I use literally every day I’m online to process and save…
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Golf, creativity, failure and learning
The April 2007 issue of “High School Sports Magazine” for Central Oklahoma has an article about Morgan Chambers, the most dominant female high school golfer in the state. I play golf but certainly don’t claim to play the game well: Generally my best golf games are the ones when I’m not keeping score and just…
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Encouraging empathy to address multiple challenges
We need to focus more on encouraging the development of empathy in our own lives and the lives of learners with whom we live and work. Mary Gordon has founded the remarkable “Roots of Empathy” project in Canada which: …is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and…
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Advice for designing the school of the future
I recently posted on a closed forum to a question someone asked about designing a school of the future. The following was my reply: When it comes to designing the school of the future, my encouragement would be to rethink school as well as technology use. I have been using a lens of thinking about…
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And so it begins (OLPC deployment)
The images from the deployment of the first laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Nigeria were posted to CNet April 11th. Amazing and heartwarming! I remember learning the song “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” when I was growing up and going to school (Kindergarten through 3rd grade) in Lubbock,…
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FLOSS Your World: It’s About Free (Steve Braunius)
A wiki of resources for this session is available from the Connecting and Collaborating conference on April 20, 2007 in Holland, Michigan. I also recorded this session with Steve’s permission and will be posting it here as a podcast soon. My notes from Steve’s session: I was a 4th grade teacher, at some point I…
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Need for digital discipline in SL and RL
Steve Friedman wrote an article about his experiences in the virtual world “Second Life” (SL) in the article “Living the Life” in the April 2007 issue of Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine. The article is probably the first introduction for many airline passengers to the virtual online environment which some believe will transform the way we…