Stepping Stones

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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A fabulous resource and links related to teaching digital writing. I discovered in looking through Brian Lambs blog – Abject Learning. I haven’t had time to explore it in total, however it looked so promising I promptly put it on the CR&LR blog. Here is the intro from KAIROS.
We think that if you are reading [...]

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A great podcast from Nancy White – Full Circle Online Interaction Blog. She is speaking on learning networks and communitys and much more. It can be found on the Worldbridges EdTech Talk blog. I didn’t know how much this lady is immersed in online learning and communities of practice, particularly for the not for profit [...]

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Jon Udell has posted his summer listening of podcasts. My collection is such a mess so I don’t have my list organized to share yet. I like the idea and I sure enjoyed my initial scan through the list. As you develop your own list, the idea is to tag it summerlistening at del.icio.us and [...]

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An earlier post regarding science blogs for my 4th year Biology major daughter came up in conversation with a friend who is involved as the Coordinator (sorry, forgot your title Ed) with an International organization dedicated to Wildlife Disease Control. He was interested in the potential for using blogs and Wiki’s with his group so [...]

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I picked up on this video initially via George Siemens and Clarence Fischer. They pointed me to the Odeo Blog which is hosting talks made by guests at the yearly TED Conferences. Here is the introduction from their blogsite. (the link isn’t currently working for me)
“Have you ever heard of the TED conference? It’s an [...]

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In a comment David Warlick makes in a post steming from Dean Shareski, Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech, on the topic of technology in the classroom, I was blown away by a major distinction that David made regarding the changing nature of information. To me, his point makes a lot of sense and puts [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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