Archive forJanuary, 2007

 I have recently become involved in an amazing 1001 Flat World Tales project that is developing from Clay Burell at Korea International School in Seoul.  This student project involves many students writing, illustrating and reviewing/critiquing student authored creative writing…the writing platform will be a wiki and successful stories will be published on a blog…
International Students [...]

Been kinda busy lately…I was recently asked to instruct two undergraduate level courses by the University of New Brunswick’s Faculty of Education (my alma mater). The courses are regular undergrad calendar listings but are delivered via distance ed as part of a 4-Year BEd program for aboriginal students in four locations around the province.
I [...]

Part of what I hear from teachers is that they simply don’t have time for a lot of professional development, especially self-directed explorations of edublogs.  As a teacher, I know they speak the truth.  However, just like our students, we need to be life-long learners, exploring ideas, harvesting and manipulating information to create new personal understandings.
One of [...]

Christian Long’s think:lab blog post on his “Future of Learning” Manifesto is one of the most provoking articles I’ve read in a while and certainly is food for conversations within our schools.
There are so many resonating points, but the one that caught my eye on first read, and remains embedded in my thoughts after several [...]

One of my focal points the last couple of months has been working with select teachers to develop student-based collaborative projects with students outisde their classroom/school. 
Classes in the two schools I work with are now working on collaborative projects with students in Grand Manan Island here in New Brunswick, New Orleans, France, Africa and an exciting new writing project [...]

One of the neat parts about my job is that I get to wander into classes when I get the chance to see what learners (teachers and students) are up to and how technology might help…I am sometimes pleasantly surprised as learners grow.
Yesterday I had the chance to wander into one of our Grade 7 [...]

Had a couple of chances to use Vyew in the past few days…in case you missed my previous post, Vyew is an interactive, collaborative, web-based tool that allows two or more people to share live desktops, images or other files on a real-time basis.  Thought I would drop a couple of observations.
First of all, I [...]

As we move towards the confusing future of education and the role technology plays in information artisanship with our students, sometimes it’s nice to just share the simple, practical use of a new tool within our classrooms.
One such tool is the simple pen-based graphics tablets which were designed to allow a human interface with software [...]

Sir Ken Robinson talks on TedTalks.  When you have a few minutes, watch this presentation Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative.  He talks about our education system, how it was developed to serve the industrial age, how it is serving to tell young people they are NOT intelligent, how it places so much [...]

Was informed the other day that we will be lucky enough to have a visit from yet another inspiring fount of wisdom next month in the person of Dr. Jason Ohler.
Jason is an educator and has built a thriving consulting and speaking business helping and encouraging educators as they begin to handle the enormous challenges of creating new [...]

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