This is the last blog post I’ll write here. If you want to skip my droning on about why, you can just head over to the new blog, Open Monologue, at robwall.ca. If you want to stay subscribed to this blog, I’ll be auto-posting the ed-tech links that I bookmark at del.icio.us so and I’ll [...]
I’ve been mostly neglecting this blog for a while. Sorry about that, but it has been a season of endings, beginnings and renewals. First – some endings. I suppose the biggest ending has been the conclusion of my M.Ed. I don’t have the official piece of paper in front of me conferring that esteemed title [...]
I have mostly recovered from the great hard drive crash, thanks to Apple’s Backup software. Most music has been recovered, and I will soon be sniveling and groveling to iTMS to be allowed to re-download music that I have already paid for. Most pictures have been restored, up until I last backed up all my [...]
I’m letting myself take a distraction break from marking and entering numbers into the grading program (Good old numbers … what would school be like without them?). In OLDaily Stephen has posted about his presentation “What you really need to learn“. Great stuff. I’m looking forward to the audio. Here’s a tasty little morsel from [...]
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back
Kathy Sierra, in her great blog Creating Passionate Users, writes about The myth of “keeping up”. You’re not keeping up. I’m not keeping up. And neither is anyone else. At least not in everything. Wow – those are encouraging words to hear. I’m just getting some last minute work done before I leave to Saskatoon [...]
After a great deal of badgering, cajoling and bribery, I’m pleased to announce that my friend and colleague Donna DesRoches is now blogging at The Illuminated Dragon. Donna and I enjoy having many heated discussions about many issues involving educational technology and now we can bring our debates to the public! Donna also has a [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
You could read what I have to say, or you can just skip to this essay by Paul Graham right now: How to Do What You Love Still here? Well, here are my thoughts on the matter. I teach at a secondary school, and one of my goals for this upcoming semester (which starts on [...]
Warning – heavy self-reflective navel gazing ahead. You have been warned! Two weeks ago when I started my Christmas holiday, it looked like such a long time and I had hopes of getting so much done – take care of some long overdue projects around the house, more time doing fun stuff with my daughter, [...]