Posted in Edutech on Jun 29th, 2006 Comments Off
I do a lot of collaboration work in my role at the Community Resource & Learning Room. In fact, my whole career is centered on the effectiveness of collaborating with other agencies, my constituents, funders, government, partner groups and on and on…..
I am collecting some great posts and articles written by bloggers and organizations. I [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
I think many people will enjoy reading these science blogs. I highlighted the biology section for my daughter who is in her final year of biology at University, but of course the home page has all the categories. I’m not deeply interested, however there are such facinating articles to read, it’s hard to [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 22nd, 2006 Comments Off
A few pictures from our Youth Community Mapping presentations via Rockyou.com. We presented to over 550 youth and adults over a 3 week period. I will be completing a full report over the next few months and we will distribute it across the Region as well as have it posted on our Youth Community Mapping [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 22nd, 2006 Comments Off
A few pictures of my back yard, curtesy of Rockyou. I love this time of year and we have another 5 months left to enjoy it.
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Posted in Edutech on Jun 20th, 2006 Comments Off
I had a very interesting conversation with a new contact at the YRDSB School Board. She is interested in school mapping and came to see me about the work we are doing in our Youth Community Mapping Program (youth poverty and homelessness).
We had a great talk. It was was especially rewarding to meet someone who [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 19th, 2006 Comments Off
The is a comprehensive and thought provoking list of demographics that illustrate some of the realities of living in our time. It’s better to visit the site and scroll through the categories than for me to attempt an in depth description.
Posted in Edutech on Jun 19th, 2006 Comments Off
A wonderful day for me. I worked at home uninterupted from early morning to mid afternoon on various blogging activities and reading posts from some of my favourite bloggers. I had a lovely lunch with my mom (93 years young) and then off to my tennis club where I participated in a coaching clinic by [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 18th, 2006 Comments Off
This is a must read post from Will Richardson and links to Stephen Downes post on the same topic. It puts the question of Internet safety and the use of My Space in much more realistic and adult perspective. Here is how Stephen Downes sees the safety issue.
I think there is no question that there [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 18th, 2006 Comments Off
Ann Davis has created a Wiki that is rich in insight, resources and plain old good sense on the subject of classroom blogging. The site is called Improving Instruction Through the Use of Weblogs. I found the link throught Will Richardson’s blog “Weblogg-ed”.
He also has another link to a site that provides similiar information and [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 14th, 2006 Comments Off
This post is a bit late but well worth the wait. My partner in our Program, Emma is away in the south of France, so I hope she finds this update on our Youth Community Mapping presentations. It is a follow up to an earlier post I made about the Highs & Lows of a [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 8th, 2006 2 Comments »
I am having an intersesting conversation with a friend who is just starting her teaching career and I’m encouraging her to blog and use social software in her classroom.
An earlier post, picked up on from Jay Cross, was a bit on the brash side and I recognize now as not very encouraging for those that [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 4th, 2006 Comments Off
A very appropriate poem that can apply to many individuals as they make choices that will have life lasting consequences. I thought of it as I read a post from Jay Cross (Internet Time Blog) about people are bloggers are they are not - bloggers. It’s becoming more apparent to me that the many [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 2nd, 2006 1 Comment »
Today my presentation to a very professional bunch of agency and government people went completely flat when my laptop failed me and my back up was rather sketch. Truth be told, explaining our Youth Community Mapping Program without actually doing the presentation just doesn’t work. The whole presentation is designed to be an interactive and [...]
Posted in Edutech on Jun 1st, 2006 Comments Off
This is another great post that illustrates the benefits of blogging for students and teachers. There is a whole string of other pertinent posts from Anne Davis (mostly aimed for educators) about blogging at the eSN Ed-Tech Insider on-line newsletter.
Gosh, if I was a full time teacher rather than a Community & Youth Worker, [...]
