Mar

17

Digital Storytelling w. Jason Ohler – live blogging

March 17, 2008 | 4 Comments

Live blog of Jason Ohler’s keynote to open Digital Storytelling workshop…Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, March 17, 2008
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Cell phone are “screasels”…screens + easels = what our kids see these new technologies as…our kids are creating content for these screasels…
Literacy does not mean reading and writing…but means consuming and producing media forms of the day…used to be [...]

Mar

17

Digital Storytelling & the New Narrative

March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Part of life in Canada (and Alaska for that matter) is winter. Snow, sleet, ice…the works. Schedules are never set in stone, delays happen. We deal with it.
Jason Ohler gets it too. He’s from Alaska.
Today he’s here in Fredericton, a guest of the New Brunswick Department of Education. For the [...]

Mar

6

Twitter…released…for beginners…

March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Last week I arrived at school one morning and went to follow my twitter network when…uh oh…up came the standard filter message…twitter had been blocked!
Seems that Websense – which is used by the Department of Education – had recategorized Twitter into a category that was taboo at school.  Fortunately, after a quick plea to our [...]

Mar

5

Shifting concentrations…

March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

School is an interesting place when no teachers or students are present. It’s Spring Break in our part of the country (although spring doesn’t seem to be making an appearance) and, aside from the occasional glimpse of janitorial staff, the school is eerily quiet.
Between planning this month’s PD sessions and organizing / [...]

Mar

5

Classroom Signs

March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Found this pic while looking for something else on flickr. Reminded me of Mrs. Mutch (Grade 3 and 4!) in the two room / 4 grade school I started with in the little stretch of community called Boom Road.
While our Acceptable Use Policy is designed by the Department of Education, we are [...]