I discovered Gravatar over a year ago and have used it to represent me visually on blog comments and to give my online identity some consistency in other online spaces. A few weeks ago I changed my Twitter avatar and, after recently leaving a blog comment with an avatar that didn’t match, I decided it was [...]
In this video from Edutopia, James Paul Gee talks collaboration, problem solving, knowledge creation and much more. Eleven minutes well spent.
Thanks George.
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I’m on a couple of learning curves at the moment. The gentler one of them is Google Wave (more of that in a later post). The other, steeper curve, is Second Life. Both of them have reminded me of what it’s like to be a new learner, unsure of the next step, wary of making [...]
If you’ve read my earlier post Talking the Talk you’ll know how I feel about hearing my recorded voice. Yesterday the chance arose to take another step up the ladder and produce a video.
@catspyjamasnz asked for people to contribute to her project What My PLN Means to Me and to add a video to the [...]
A new law coming into force later this month will require students to check in their pencils and crayons at the office and collect them after school. Any children caught with pencils or crayons in their possession will have then confiscated and parents will be informed.
“We’ve had enough,” said one teacher, “kids are writing notes [...]
Last week my premium subscription to PBWorks (the new name for PBWiki) expired. I’d won it in a PBWiki competition last year…I promoted PBWiki and completed wiki tasks that earned points and, eventually, a free wiki upgrade.
I viewed the email with a little dismay, even though our wiki has been underused so far this year [...]
Be warned- this is very video heavy post
A Saturday morning tweet by @betchaboy-
prompted me to refresh my memory…
I’ve blogged about this Oblong interface before, but I’d forgotten how slick it really was (apart from the naff gloves).
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Here it is being used to edit video/movie elements together.
oblong’s tamper system [...]
I promised that I’d photoshop* this photo and add effects to the plastic lightsabres we were holding. It took me a couple of months to get around to it and about an hour to complete. Once I’d finished I pushed it out on to twitter as a bit of a joke.
I got a tweet back [...]
I opened google reader to find a new post by Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) entitled “This Generation Learning“, in which he discusses the barriers that prevent teachers adopting emerging technologies and teaching tools.
“…I think the most trenchant barrier to grand adoption of emerging technologies is time. Teachers quite simply don’t have enough time to do anything [...]
Lars Rasmussen and Google Wave
Imagine all (and I mean all) the web tools we now use in education. Blogs, wiki, googledocs, photosharing, IM, twitter, etherpad, maps, games, polls, forums and video etc.
Now imagine them all integrated into one web application… cross platform and cross device. Where a tweet shows up instantaneously as a blog [...]
At an unconference in Auckland yesterday, Jill Hammonds showed me this little blogging client that she uses with her wordpress blog. I think I’ll try it in class instead of the SRWare option I have at the moment.
BlogDesk
Update: Takes its proxy settings from internet explorer, but has no way to work with proxy servers that [...]
A month ago I sent this tweet about a video at MIT.
The link http://is.gd/nBFI goes to an article at Computerworld.com that includes a video that is amazing. It looks a bit clunky at the moment, (I compared it to this polished MicroSoft promo) but imagine what it could be like! I’d intended to blog about [...]
So here’s my audio-post. I got over the fact that I don’t like to hear my recorded voice, wrote a script and read it out (most of it). There were a few mistakes and err…umms along the way, but I just did what I tell the kids to do, “Keep going, we can edit the [...]
Earlier this week I left a comment (which I later turned into a blogpost) on this post by @wmchamberlain and was invited, via Twitter, to be a contributor at “At the Teacher’s Desk” As I’d already identified audio and video of myself as a personal dislike I decided that the first step in “walking the [...]
This entry came about because of a blogpost at “At the Teacher’s Desk“. I left a comment and then realised that the comment was really a reflective blogpost.
We’ve had a class blog since 2005 and I originally saw it as a way to share children’s work with their families. When I added a counter and [...]
I followed a link from twitter the other day to a post about teacher effectiveness. It came to the conclusion that everything a teacher does has an effect on students and their learning.
Today a photo from a parent arrived in my email to confirm this.
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I can’t figure out how to black this blog out so here’s what I CAN do.
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I spent a good deal of time this year moving cupboards, shuffling desks and recabling computers in their new positions. What a difference it makes having the computers away from the door.
Then this morning I noticed a tweet on Twitter from @techieicebreaker to @dwarlick. It was a link to a wiki called Inspired Classrooms. The wiki [...]
I got a new follower on Twitter today and, as usual, checked out their profile to see if I wanted to follow them back. That led me to a blog post about Twitter and how effective it has been as a PLN and PD tool for @kgustin.
I’ve been meaning to write about Twitter for a [...]
My Great-Grandad John (Jack) Porter and Me
I mentioned to some one the other day that I don’t use my own voice for talking. I still have an accent and it’ll never go away, but the edges are softened, my glottal stops have all but disappeared and I dont say “tha noz” at all anymore. It [...]
I was tagged a couple of days ago by @moodlegirl on Twitter to complete the “Seven Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me” meme. The list just kind of evolved. I kept adding ideas to geistesblitz and then got to work. There were other things that I deleted and yet more that could have been [...]
I’ve been on holiday for a week – so that was no internet for me unless I paid $$$ for a 15 minute session. Or was it?
It wasn’t at all. I have Opera Mini on my phone and most of the web, e-mails, social networking and news that I access on my laptop were there [...]
I’ve just started playing with Tarpipe. It lets you upload items to several targets/sites in one go. In about ten minutes I managed to configure it so that I could send a photo to Flickr, tweet a corresponding url to Twitter, a entry to Plurk and send the same photo to Evernote Web. You can see [...]
The next thing to consider is how to use these tools yourself and then introduce them to the class.
I started of by publishing all children’s work myself. Usually I would say, "When you’ve finished that piece of writing I’ll publish it on the blog".
For an item brought to share with the class I’d photograph it [...]
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