Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
In this podcast, recorded Friday, I talk a bit about some of the professional development experiences I’ve had recently, as well as some of my thoughts about how we should try to bridge authentic experiences with the institutional experiences that we are, in US schools, required to have. Links from the ‘cast […]
Read More The Podcast: Just in Time, SometimesKen Burns on his new WWII movie: I’m in the memory business, and each time a person dies, it’s a whole library of memories that leave. I hope we’re all just a little bit in the memory business. This week’s U.S. News & World Report features a collection of WWII memories as well as some […]
Read More The Memory BusinessI’m sitting in an Internet Safety Summit in Louisville, Colorado, sponsored by the Boulder Valley School District, the Department of Justice, and others. I’ll probably be twittering the event today as long as my battery holds out. Check out my Twitter for updates. As an aside, just met a fellow edublogger, Matthew. There’s […]
Read More Internet Safety SummitFree Stuff Originally uploaded by Bud the Teacher I’ve been enjoying my coffee a little bit more than usual this week as I’ve had the pleasure of sipping from my neat-o "I am a winner" gift for correctly identifying the secret word inside the last EdTech Posse podcast. Thanks, y’all. Does […]
Read More Thanks to the PosseI’ll be a guest on the Women of Web 2.0 webcast from EdTechTalk next Tuesday, Sept. 25th. I sure hope you can join us at 7pm Mountain Time for some conversation and chat and fellowship and whatnot. Any suggestions for conversation topics?
Read More Please Join UsA little while back, I was offered some invitations to the collaborative site YouFig, currently in private beta. I was and still am intrigued by the idea of a social network built to foster small group collaboration. I’m not sure, though, if there’s enough within the site to keep me going back, as […]
Read More A Social Network for CollaborationThis month’s English Journal is a themed issue on New Literacies. I’m pleased that a hyperlinked version of our column, entitled "Linkin’ (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks" is available for free via the EJ website. Regular readers of the blog will have seen much of the content before, as some of it originally […]
Read More Hyperlinked Print. Sort of.Dana nails the issue of "excused" technological illiteracy: Teachers have to realize at some point that exhibiting ignorance with this sort of pride is not OK. It is OK not to know something and to try to fix that, and I would hope that most teachers would do so. I don’t know everything. That’s […]
Read More Technological Literacy? It’s Still Just LearningThe runaway podcast of my summer and soon-to-be-fall is WNYC’s Radiolab. The podcast, a fabulous collection of fun at an editing board mixed in with science and philosophy (or maybe it’s the other way around), has been a must listen whenever it appears in my aggregator. I love how the show’s producers blend […]
Read More Been Listening to . . .This is a little less timely than I would have liked, but I’ve been working through quite a hefty "to read" pile. (You can check out my online "toread" pile, if you’d like – if anything on there’s no good, let me know so I can save myself the trouble!) I’ve quite […]
Read More King on Rowling: The kids are alright