Category: blogs
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“What is Schooliness?” – Discursus and Open Thread (Clay Burell guest-post 2)
I Love Learning. I Hate Schooliness. –this is my motto. It’s one of the reasons I wrote (in a post, “On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher,” with about 70 comments now), I’m not sure how much longer I want to work for schools. I’d so much rather teach. So what is “schooliness”? I have…
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A Short, Strange Trip into the 21st Century, Part 1 (guest post by Clay Burell)
Prologue: A Remembrance Before I was sentenced to twelve years of forced labor at this modern invention called “school,” I had a couple of years of toddler freedom to explore the vast wonders of my small world. A particularly magical place was my father’s closet. A costume gallery of shirts, pants, coats, ties, and suits…
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Podcast216: Conversations about Classroom Blogging, Instructional Change, and Schooliness by Clay Burell and Ken Carroll
This podcast features excerpts of the conversation during an unconference session facilitated by Will Richardson at the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai, China, in September 2007. Although there were many more participants, the only ones whose permission I was able to obtain to share their comments were Clay Burell and Ken Carroll. For that reason,…
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Monitoring Twitter direct messages and blog comments with Safari RSS
Thanks to a helpful blog comment from Sue Waters, I learned this week how to use TweetScan to create an RSS feed for the direct messages I receive in Twitter and monitor those both in Google Reader as well as Safari RSS. If you are a Windows user (or like me, predominantly a Mac user…
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Last 2 blogs moved to Siteground!
Last week I spent some late hours in the evenings migrating my primary blog (this one) as well as “Eyes Right” to a new web host, and this evening I’m pleased to report my other two personal blogs (“Learning Signs” and “Talking Science”) have now also made the journey to Siteground successfully. POWWEB reports they…
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Lessons learned moving WordPress blogs to a new server
Moving is tough. Just as physically moving from Lubbock, Texas, to Edmond, Oklahoma was tough on our family for many reasons a year and a half ago, migrating my blog from my ISP since 2003 (POWWEB) to my new ISP (SiteGround) this week has been challenging, frustrating, and at times rather agonizing. I have been…
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Podcast215: Technology Shopping Cart Podcast03 – Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology
Educational innovation thrives on the food of creative ideas. Welcome to the “Technology Shopping Cart,” and our third episode when we focus on “Strategies for Helping Teachers Integrate Technology” as well as our “geeks of the week.” Access our show notes below and on our wiki for links to the websites and resources we discussed…
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Upgrading multiple WordPress installations
A new version of WordPress is out, and I’ve upgraded the three installations I’m now maintaining this evening: this blog (Moving at the Speed of Creativity,) Learning Signs (our family learning blog) and Eyes Right (a Christian team blog.) Several of the newer features of WordPress DO make the process of upgrading easier, but this…
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Conference blogging and next year’s personal / professional development
As you look forward to 2008, consider the role conference blog posts and conference blogging can play in your own personal / professional development and in the PD of other educators within your personal learning community. There are at least five different ways you can utilize and promote the effective utilization of conference blog posts…
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Enabling social bookmarking
I am a vocal advocate for web-based social bookmarking. My latest article for the TechEdge is titled “Social Bookmarking 101,” and in my morning workshop yesterday in Richardson, Texas (“Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning”) my top recommendation for participants following the session was to play, explore, and begin using del.icio.us social bookmarking as they…