Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
I’m sitting in a lonely ol’ room here at Copper Mountain preparing for my first TIE Conference in the morning. I’m looking forward to a few days of spending time with other technology-minded folks. David Warlick, who attends far more conferences than I do, has put together a new resource that I hope […]
Read More Hitching a Conference RideStephanie‘s compiled a solid collection of resources for those interested into digging deeper with Second Life. I can’t say I’m sold on the tool, yet, but I’m definitely paying attention.
Read More For all You (Second) LifersIf you want to see an artist at work, check out Quickmuse, an interesting little site where poets compete against the clock and we see all their stumbles, edits and revisions in realtime. All of the poems and the writing sessions are archived. Pretty cool.
Read More QuickmuseSheryl responded to Will’s concern by creating yet another wiki. Okay. I’ll play — at least one more time. Here’s the wiki she’s created. Let’s see what we can do with it. Although, couldn’t one of these be useful, too?
Read More ONE LAST WikiWill’s got a post this morning in which he both lays out a new resource as well as expresses a concern that I’ve had for some time. The resource looks useful — a Digg-ish site for teacher news. The concern, though, is worth re-airing: And to be honest, this is all stemming from a bigger […]
Read More Yet ANOTHER ResourceI like to see what’s happening at other sites, especially during the summer, when the are happening all over the country. Lots of great stuff is occurring in those workshops, and lots of it is trickling out for public consumption via different site blogs. However, I have never been able to find a […]
Read More Let's Collect Writing Project BlogsThis short podcast is a "wowcast." Sometimes, I’m just blown away by what we can do with the tools at our disposal.
Read More Podcast: Technology is Downright CoolI have always despised cell phones, in a love/hate sort of way. I’ve carried one for eight years, and have depended on my ability to reach people via their cell phones countless times. That said, I dislike people talking loudly and rudely in the midst of peace and quiet; I loathe the one […]
Read More Cell Phones, or, I Really AM a GeekHere’s the next installment of OldeSchoolNews.com‘s Awareness Films. The film is about the Internet. Both the student and I agree that this isn’t as solid as the first piece — but we’ve both learned a lot along the way. Hopefully, we’ll see more Awareness Films over the summer. Future topics […]
Read More An Awareness Film: The InternetI’ll be traveling with my wife to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary starting tomorrow. I’ll be offline during that time — as it should be — but I’ll be returning in a week or so with some interesting new content. The will be beginning its Summer Institute next week, and we intend to […]
Read More The Calm Before the Storm