Remember this kid? I’ve posted this picture on here before. This is Alexander, he’s one of my two kids. I took this picture in 2008 when Alexander wasn’t quite ten. He was pretty proud because we had bought him a new Asus eee pc to use at school. Alexander was born at 27 weeks, 13 weeks premature. This has caused him a few troubles in life, one of them being that he has relatively poor fine motor skills. Short...
The technical set up behind the Idea Hive community has grown and changed into its present form over a few years. I have been blogging with students since 2005 and each year, something gets changed, tweaked, and hopefully improved. When I first started, I...
John Evans sent me a message on twitter this morning that reminded me of his twitter birthday. Of course, being the curious type, I went to check my own. Ends up my five year twitter birthday is coming up in only a few days....
The next version of Apple’s OS is going to have a piece of software installed on it that might be a surprise to some people. Mountain Lion, due out possibly as early as this summer, is going to include something Apple is calling Gatekeeper. To...
My teaching partner Heather Durnin and I run a community for our two classrooms that we call the Idea Hive. This site is a WordPress Multiuser setup combined with Buddypress and additional plugins and functionality. This setup allows us to have a central blog...
Joi Ito has this amazing photo posted over on his flickr stream. It shows the brainwaves of a student over a week. It is labelled with the activity that the person was involved with over time. Look at the times where the student listed...
For years I (and many others) have argued in favour of openness in classroom work. “Blogging communities will die closed off from the world,” was my mantra at many conferences I’ve spoken at. I have argued passionately in favour of openness and used items...
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