I’ve been reading a few blog posts from the Building Learning Communities conference, mostly from Dean, but Will’s post Why is it so Hard for Educators to Focus on Their Own Learning? hit on a topic that I’ve been trying to gain some perspective on for a while. We have a lot of terrific free [...]
Life is now in post project mode, meaning I get to re-acquaint myself with some long forgotten activities such as doing housework/yardwork, sleeping for more than 5 hours a night and the ever popular wasting my time online. My first distraction from WISBD (“what I should be doing” which in this case is marking some [...]
I’m reading a paper right now entitled Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion in Online Educational Contexts by Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson, published in the November edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (thanks to Stephen for the pointer to this). When I write that I’m reading it right now, I [...]
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Graham Atwell has published a screencast of his presentation Personal Learning Environments – Live at Edinburgh. There’s just so much I like about his presentation, but two main ideas stand out in my mind: A personalized learning environment is not an application. It is a suite of services which could be, I suppose, web based [...]
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
It has been such a busy week that I haven’t had time until now to finally post the audio from the workshop that Donna and I led on Feb. 13. I think it is fair to say that Donna had some reservations about how the workshop went; I tend to think that it went well, [...]
Sunday, February 12, 2006
On Monday morning, Donna and I are putting on a presentation entitled How to Drink Water from a Fire Hose, a read/write web presentation-demonstration-recreation hoedown (in the tradition of the presentation mashups created by the three amigos), for the teachers and other invited guests at the school. I think the title is a pretty good [...]
Earlier this week I wrote about building a school website one blog at a time, and some thoughts on the merits of not building a monolithic site, but as a series of small inter-related pieces. I’m happy to report that things have already started to move in that direction. You can see the main school [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
I’ve had some ideas in the past about using some sort of CMS to run a school web site, but after my recent post about building a school website out of a colony of blogs I’ve been encouraged to consider scaling that project up. The feedback and ideas that were left by Stephen, James and [...]