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Our journey as educators committed to shifting the narrative of learning in the 21st century is sometimes frustrating and frighteningly slow.  Rest assured, movement is happening.  Conversations are happening.  There are some very exciting ideas, examples and models developing.
As I sit here and watch the clock move towards the end of the year here in [...]

Right off the bat, a caveat.  I have known New Brunswick Education Minister Kelly Lamrock for many years.  While I certainly don’t count him amongst my closest buddies, we are casual, first-name friends.  Being in a smallish capital city affords me the opportunity to connect with Kelly occasionally.  After the Liberals replaced the former Conservative [...]

The network is so incredibly powerful.  Not only do I depend on twitter, blogs and conversations for my own personal learning, it also provides me with opportunities to leverage these personal contacts for student projects.
On the heels of an in initial french-second language pilot project between students at Nashwaaksis Middle School and the American School [...]

Continuing on with the conversations about the virtues and perils of free web tools from the cloud versus DIY or paid services, of course, there is always Google and their Google Docs tools.
The Google docs model, of course, is the future.  In a very few years, all our software and personal content will no longer [...]

Like most others fans of web tools in education, I have enjoyed the fact that most of these tools have been provided for free.  The price is certainly right – or is it?
As noted by many, free is not a sustainable economic model.  These tools require support in terms of technology, ideas and people.  Many [...]

Last week’s titterversation with Chris Lehmann and Karl Fisch about the benefits of using free web-based tools (commonly known as “the cloud”) vs hosting your own brought up some interesting internal conversations as the week went on.  While most schools – including mine – have embraced free services like Blogger, Edublogs, Wikispaces and Wetpaint, we [...]

Part of the power of the network is that we can ask – and receive – help when we need it.  Was given this link by my supervisor yesterday.  Seems Joseph Williams at Sunset Vista Elementary is looking for help in connecting his students to photographs around the globe to use in their picture stories.  [...]

My dad taught for 35 years.  Once a year he had an opportunity to meet with other teachers from around the province to network and share, but there really wasn’t any focus on professional development or collaboration.
Things are changing.  For the past four summers I have been fortunate to attend the Lausanne Laptop Institute, a [...]

You have to love teachers who are able to see possible value in a web tool and try it in their classroom.  A few weeks ago I saw Edmodo on my twitter network and wanted to check it out.  Edmodo is promoted as a private, micro-blogging platform developed specifiaclly for classrooms, where teachers and students [...]

It’s probably a good thing I don’t live in a city with a major or minor league baseball team, because I would most likely be broke and single after spending many nights at the ballpark. Baseball is the most beautiful of all the major sports with a long history, many stories and a major place [...]

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