The tools I’ve been using in my classroom have been mostly static for several years now. While this might seem like an eternity in internet time, we’ve been successful with our model. Blogs, wikis, google docs and open internet service as cornerstones. Many others on the periphery such as audacity, igoogle, flickr, youtube and...
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Quote of the day from Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: “The hothouse environment of a collaborative circle can make the ideas and achievements of the participants develop faster than if the participants were were all pursuing individual goals without sharing.” I love the idea of classroom as “intellectual hothouse.”
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- Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes Blackberry phones, is in trouble with a few countries in the Middle East. Beginning with the United Arab Emirates, but also with Saudi Arabia and India, RIM is facing tight deadlines. These nations have all threatened to block Blackberry Messenger as well as email...
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A lot of talk this weekend on blogs and twitter about Apple’s new wonder product, the iPad. Short of living under a very large rock in the bottom of a cave, I’m certain that you know all about it. Wired magazine has posted a great article about tablets and how the iPad has the...
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First, take a minute to look at this infographic: I think this is similar to what many people in the edtechosphere have seen. There have been a lot of comments in the past year about the “death of blogging.” While I think this is taking it too far, the fact is true that we...
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I’ve been doing some thinking lately about the possibilities of using technology in classrooms. I’m sure I’ve missed some, but I’ve come up with nine different spaces of technology use that I’ve commonly seen in classrooms. The nine are: – Collaboration - Content Creation - Research / Content Use - Communication - Data Collection...
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Heard a lot about passion based learning? Wondering what it’s all about? Take a look at this video and learn what it’s like to not be able to “go in to work,” but instead “go in to play.” Awesome stuff.
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This is a map generated by analyzing over 200 millions connections made in the US on Facebook that turned up in my Google Reader this morning. I would love to be able to draw a map like this for my students, my classroom and my school. A mapping tool like this would allow us...
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To be honest, I hadn’t even realized that we were on the brink of a new decade until I started seeing all of the “looking back at the noughties (btw: is that really what we are going to call this decade when we look back at it? – strange) stuff showing up on the...
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I have a MacBook Pro that I use at both home and school. I carry it back and forth between work and home each day. As I arrive in my classroom and set up my computer, I take a few minutes each day to reconfigure this machine to work on my school’s network. It...
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