Posted in Edutech, Learning Landscape on Aug 11th, 2007 No Comments »
This post was a must to save and get back to later.
Learning passionately
John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist at Palo Alto Resaarch Center (and now Chief of Confusion, it would seem), in a presentation to an MIT conference back in December of last year, used the phrase: ‘passion-based learning’ to describe a highly collaborative [...]
Posted in Edutech on Apr 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net - Around the Corner v2 - MGuhlin.net
I’m going to use these free audio resources some day. I found the link via MGuhlin.net, a very profilic edublogger.
In anticipation of a podcasting workshop I’ll be doing with folks in my school district, I’ve [...]
Posted in Edutech on Oct 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging?
Stephen Downes has a fullsome answer as usual. I’m quickly posting it here and will read very soon.
It [...]
Posted in Edutech on Oct 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Should All Learning Professionals be Blogging?
Stephen Downes has a fullsome answer as usual. I’m quickly posting it here and will read very soon.
It [...]
Posted in Edutech on Sep 26th, 2006 No Comments »
indelible
Originally uploaded by stoneth.
Some excellent and moving pictures on this persons (stoneth) photostream. I am quite taken by these images as I am reminded of so many youth in my past. The pictures are also a good reminder of why I’m immersed in the work I do with groups and youth poverty and homelessness.
Posted in Edutech on Sep 17th, 2006 2 Comments »
Darren Kuropatwa in his blog A Difference, has remixed a post originally from “The Fischbowl: A staff development blog for Arapahoe High School teachers exploring constructivism and 21st century learning skills”. I highly recommend it for educators and community groups as it presents some startling facts about learning and the importance of life long learning.
Posted in Edutech on Sep 17th, 2006 Comments Off
This is an powerful message from the movie Good Night and Good Luck. I picked up on this from Darren Kuropatwa - A Difference Blog. It’s well worth a momemt of pondering and thinking how this short speech about television might apply to ITC and learning today.
Posted in Edutech on Sep 14th, 2006 1 Comment »
If there ever was a post that just resonates with the power of blogging and the benefits that can accrue from the read/write web, this post has it all. Konrad Glogowski (OISE PhD candidate), in his blog called blog of proximial development has a super insightful post called “On Commenting and Readerly Voice”. There [...]
Posted in Edutech on Sep 8th, 2006 Comments Off
I found this site called Anecdote - insight & empowerment, I don’t know where. In any case it is very cool with great articles. Here is the one (whitepaper) on knowledge management. It is a refreshing and myth busting take on how to talk about km in your organization.
The range of what we see and [...]
Posted in Edutech on Sep 8th, 2006 Comments Off
Here are some great examples of blogs used for Elearning. I will scour through these and pick up some hints. The source Blog is called Word of Mouth - Articulate and authored by Gabe Anderson. The original link comes from George Siemans elearnspace blog
From learning theories to content design, metadata to LMSes, survey data to [...]
Posted in Edutech on Sep 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
Judy O’connell in her blog, heyjude (love that name) has captured some great music to combine with her post about the changing landscape of libraries and the skills/tools that were used compared to what is used now. This is also a test of the Qumana blogging tool that just may spur me on to more [...]
One World, One Future, For the Children Blog
Exploring Flickr brought me to this beautiful and powerful call for action from the Flickr community. It’s a world wide request for people who take pictures or have photos that embody a message of world peace and one world. You can upload your photos to the Flickr [...]
Posted in Edutech on Aug 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
Nancy White at her Full Circle Online Interaction Blog has asked for help with her research on blog communities. I am on a similiar quest to learn more about building or supporting blog communities. Her request is that any relevent articles be tagged with blog_communities. Many of my links have come from Nancy, however for [...]
Posted in Edutech on Aug 10th, 2006 1 Comment »
This area of learning and practice has become the focal point in my work lately. Nancy White’s Blog - Full Circle Online Interaction Blog has wonderful resources and links to the world of online blog communities. She writes 5 separate posts (still trying to find all the links in one spot) on the different types [...]
Posted in Edutech on Aug 7th, 2006 Comments Off
A few shots from my last trip into Toronto and my first visit to the Rexall Centre were the Men’s Roger’s Cup - Master Series Tournament is playing.
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