This is a picture of my two sons. Christian (left – without the gun; he’s not grouchy honest, just a bad time for a picture.) and Alexander (right – still without the gun). I took this photo in Deadwood SD this summer right after we had watched the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock. Alexander...
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As much as I love this online space, I freely admit that I prefer to spend my time between the pages of a book. I just can’t get into reading from a screen. I’ve spent the last few days deep down in the pages of The Book Thief. My new friend Heather Durnin told...
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I put the cart before the horse today. While I’ve constantly preached and believed in the fact that learning need and pedagogy come before selecting tools – I set up a new website today for my classroom and I’m not sure how it will be used. As ning went through its changes this spring...
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I found a great post on the Social Media Today blog that applies as much to teachers who build online communities in their classrooms as it does to companies and brands that build these same networks. So here are there tips they have given, with my spin on them for education: 1.) Lead by...
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So we’ve finally hit the 20th century here in Snow Lake and have had cell phone service for all of about a week now. What is interesting is the conversation I had with the students in my class this AM about it. Approximately 90% of them said that their family already has a phone....
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Helping a new classroom community to grow and take shape in a classroom is different each and every year. Much depends on the variables: the age of your students, their technology skills, your community context and need among others. There are many things to consider. Each community needs to be handled differently, but the...
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We have more information, but less news. We have more information, but we understand the world less and have less perspective on global events than people in the past. An information age paradox. Alisa Miller in this 4 minute TED Talk explains how this has happened: This is frightening. We live in a world...
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Online, there are communities of all sizes. By the hundreds of thousands, some are huge stopping places that collect tens of thousands of users, while others are small, with only a few people who contribute and are struggling to stay alive. Like real communities, each of these spaces has a culture of its own...
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