The Lie of Community

I’m pleased to share that my presentation for this year’s K12Online Conference is now available.  In addition, there is also a supplemental blog and podcast for the presentation.  You might want to subscribe to that podcast – plenty of great conversations coming to that feed.  I might re-broadcast them here – but then again, I […]

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Not

A little while back, Terry Freedman wrote an excellent analysis of the NotK12Online situation. I agree with him on many of his points and concerns, and have had similar discussions with other members of our committee as well as other colleagues. Better yet, he models quite nicely the kind of constructive critique that I wish […]

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The Podcast: NotK12Online: A Scaffold We Hope You Won’t Need, But Hope You’ll Help Us Build Anyway

In this podcast, recorded Friday, I talk a little bit about NotK12Online, the fine folks who will be helping me to put it together, some of my/our initial ideas, and the juicy paradox of the whole endeavour.  I’ve got a great committee of folks assembled to do the beginning planning – but we’ll need plenty […]

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Hey Network, Can You Lend a Hand?

   One of the teachers taking our K12Online Conference course writes (in a forum that’s private – so no linktribution): There are so many conference sessions to choose from.  Some conferences have catchy titles, but don’t grab me when I click on it. Will you give me a few recommendations?  I teach high school social […]

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K12 Online – Post-Session 1

    I think we had an excellent first session of our K12Online group in St. Vrain.  I had to literally turn folks away, as we ran out of space in the classroom – and it’s a pretty tight classroom.  (Perhaps I need to run a second session?  Why couldn’t I?  The content’s there either […]

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K12Online. Slow & Reflective.

    I’m pretty excited about tomorrow.   Tomorrow, I begin this class: The K120 Online Conference is an online offering of presentations created by educators and centered around new applications and new technologies. It’s a way to address both teachers’ needs as well as the opportunity to connect to an online network of professionals that […]

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Get Ready

    K12Online 2007 begins tomorrow (or today, depending on your time zone)  – and really doesn’t end.  Since the content is perma-hosted, it’s always available as a learning tool.  It’s good like that.    Looking forward to the learning.  I hope you’ll be there. 

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Night Soon Falls

    Night is about to fall on the end of the first K12 Online Conference — and they’re going out in style, with a 24-hour webcast, broken up into one or two hour sessions hosted by folks all over the world.   Things get underway at 12:00 GMT, which is 5:00PM Mountain Time.  Head on […]

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