Blog Posts Across School 2.0

Many people are interested in Web sites such as news sites, community and religious organization information pages, product information pages, medical websites, and weblogs whose content changes on an unpredictable schedule. Repeatedly checking each Web site to see if there is any new content can be very tedious. Before RSS Feeds were ava…

Chris Lehmann has asked that those of us on Twitter post about the upcoming Educon 2.0 conference.

For complete information see the Educon 2.o wiki. Cliotech also has a very thorough blog post on the conference.

Here is the vital information:…

"A portal to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students. Teachers can find Global Citizens (Volunteers) willing to help in a field of interest that they are working on in their class."

FieldFindr: Where teachers can meet global citizens with skills to share.

It started with a…

Why should you participate in this online conference?

• It's Free!
• You can participate when it is convenient for you.
• You can participate as much or as little as you like.
  
• You will 'meet' some very interesting people.
• It will challenge you to do "
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Why should you participate in this online conference?

• It's Free!
• You can participate when it is convenient for you.
• You can participate as much or as little as you like.
  
• You will 'meet' some very interesting people.
• It will challenge you to do "
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That was the question that US Senator and Presidential Candidate Barac…

…and who are OpenLearners? It’s a question that’s been in my head for quite a while now.

Each week I run the stats which show how many people have visited the site overall, and how many have visited LabSpace and LearningSpace in particular. We report how many people have registered on OpenLearn, and how many people who have visited the site have registered on an OU course in the same session. We keep track on the top ten units, dwell time, page views…

Prof. Martin Weller of The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology is running a FLOSScom summer university which seeks to bring together students / educators / those with open source experience to develop a toolkit for learning the open source way.

The idea is that participants collaborate on the toolkit project and in the end produce something which is of use to others, similar to this…

Prof. Martin Weller of The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology is running a FLOSScom summer university which seeks to bring together students / educators / those with open source experience to develop a toolkit for learning the open source way.

The idea is that participants collaborate on the toolkit project and in the end produce something which is of use to others, similar to this…

Dean Shareski has an interesting post about summer holidays. As Dean comments

For me though, I don’t get as excited as I once did about June and it’s not just that I haven’t spend 185 days with kids, although that does make a difference, but as I said before, I still longed for summer vacation even after I left the classroom.

Here are

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Well, after a long(ish) pregnancy the OpenLearn Netvibes Universe has finally been born. We’re the first University in Europe to have representation in a Universe (in fact Tom Hadfield’s work on the Harvard Universe is the only other University Universe I’m aware of).

We don’t yet show up in the search so I’m not sure which categ…

Jay Pfaffman, an instructional technology professor from the University of Tenessee recently wrote an excellent piece which appeared on the LinuxInsider site entitled, It's Time to Consider Open Source Software. As can be expected, this generated a fair amoun…

My name is Kelly. I've been free of commercial television for 13 years now. Well, that's not true. Every Christmas while staying at the hotel with my wife's family, I can't help but watch a few Star Trek and CSI.

There is a great discussion going on at…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a few themes that have caught my attention. Now, a few of them are very positive, like the Future of Education that is being hosted by George Siemens over at University of Manitoba. Another is planning, especially for the summer months as many teachers prepare for some time off and away from the school. Now, I would have thought that…

Today during a Math lesson on Surface Area and Volume:

Mr. Truss, I forgot my calculator, can I borrow one?

Do you have your cell phone?

Yes?

Then you have a calculator.

I listened to Jon Gordon’…

Well, I’ve been tagged by Brian over at Snacks and Staff Meetings about my best productivity tips. It’s taken me a while to get to this one so maybe my tips aren’t really that effective. But, I’ll throw them out there and you can see if they might work for you.

Tip #1 - Find an all-in-one organizer and stick with it. This took me some time but I really like the Zoho planner and now it stays open on my laptop a…

There has been a great discussion going on over at Bump on the Log and We Live in Interesting Times about whether we should or should not be preparing our students for the “business world”. Now, in reading through the posts and the comments, I began to wonder what exactly we are preparing them for? I mean, I don’t know how many times…

... continue teaching school like it is 1890.

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us.

O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

-LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Well, like many teachers and administrators, the end of May and June are times when things get a bit hectic. It seems that each year, no matter how much I plan, I always seem to be crunched for time. So why am I writing this blog if I don’t have much time? Good question.

Since I began on this web2.0 journey in January, I’ve begun to rely on this blog as a place to discuss important ideas, sound off about things that are bugging me and ask for input on ideas that are bumping around insi…

On Thursday morning, Tom Doar, our Head of School, wandered into the library where I was getting ready to help work with our fifth graders on their iMovie project which I wrote about last week. He told me:

On Tuesday evening, at a meeting of the strategic plan committee chairs, Pam Whalley, our Lower School Head stated that the accessibility to technology has changed the way that teaching and learning are done in the classroom, especially in the last three years. Teachers n

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School 2.0h no, not yet...

I've been having this conversation in a few different place…

I want to thank Julie Lindsay, Vicki Davis and others involved in the Horizon Project for once again showing us the exciting benefits of a global e-learning experience.

Like the award-winning Flat Classroom Proj…

Vancouver, British Columbia – 19 April 2007 – Th…

As someone whose mission is to empower others so that they feel comfortable integrating technology on their own, it is gratifying when teachers and students begin to think of ways that they can utilize the tools and then do so on their own.

Today, I had one of those experiences. Kevin Randolph (krandolph@nscds.org), on…

<<cross posted at Multi-faceted Refractions>>

Vision

In the year 2014, we envision North Shore possessing a technology rich environment in which students, faculty, staff, and parents have access to the resources and tools so that they can communicate, collaborate, create, and contribute to society. The school community will investigate real life problems with experts and passionate amateurs around the work to propose and crea…

I have been doing a lot of wandering through blogs, wikis, podcasts and vodcasts lately. I'm not quite sure what I'm looking for, and because of that, I seem to be following a myriad of links from one thought to the next. My overarching theme, if you will, is something like "School 2.0" - where are we, where are we going ...it rather mirrors my very search! I keep hoping for some clarity --someone with all of the answers to a question that keeps coming up in my district --"How do we get there…

I think I shall be able to contribute something to the deliberations of my colleagues in this community; however, the biggest thrill for me is the anticipation of all I will learn from you.

So, let the races begin!!!

Teach me! I yearn to learn!