If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A snapshot from kwout of Younsuk’s self-assessment in the project-based PLN class. It’s interesting to me. Click to read it all, and feel free to comment to Younsuk. (He’s interesting, by the way: Korean, but grew up in Japan, which [...]

Background to a class that might, in its own small way, move educational history forward into the 21st century: Students in a 1:1 Apple Laptop school take my Networked Learning elective. They all have Macbooks with iLife for easy podcasting, movie-making, photography, and multimedia blogging. My open school network allows access to Twitter, Skype, YouTube, [...]

Early last December, I posted my excitement about Sean Law’s new blog, Slam Teaching.  Three weeks later, after many rounds of commenting on each others’ posts, we somehow went from Twitter to Skype one holiday weekend afternoon (in Seoul – it was around midnight for Sean in Denver), and talked for a good hour and [...]

I read a recent post from the Edina School District (wherever that is ) called Student Blogging that brings up Will Richardson’s recent post requesting examples of a certain type of student blogging he wants to use, presumably, as a (or is it “the”? That’s a key question) model. Here’s Will: Maybe I’m asking too [...]

Tuna’s Aquarium via kwout Christina Kang is a senior in my AP Literature class, a leader of Project Global Cooling, a Flixn star of a summer post (see her discuss a David Sedaris short story in a video embed here), and one wonderfully creative and natural student blogger. I want to introduce her blog to [...]

(right-click and “save as” here to download enhanced podcast to iTunes) Here’s another Skype conference call, “quick-in, quick-out,” with people who simply answered a Twitter invitation from me here in Seoul, Korea, to discuss ways to make my Personal Learning Network / Communication Arts English Seminar better. Most of the conversation is with Corrie Bergeron [...]

I’ve chronicled my ups and downs with turning my students onto passion-based, self-directed learning via “Visionary Classroom Blogging” since starting the project back in October or so.  In saner moments, I’ve also reminded them and myself that blogging magic doesn’t happen overnight.  My own experience, stumbling about like a drunk through my own first month [...]

Give me a schooly unit, I’ll make an ‘A’ for a day. Teach me how to make a Personal Learning Network, I’ll learn for a lifetime. –from a comment I left on David Warlick’s riff off my podcast conversation with Chris Craft yesterday.  Exciting times.

(right-click and “save as” to download the enhanced podcast here) Life as science fiction continues. Here in Korea on a Friday night, close to midnight, I hop onto Twitter, see Chris Craft is there in South Carolina, USA, and tweet him an invitation to talk on Skype. He kindly obliges (and it’s just a free [...]

I want to make a cool badge a la Scott McLeod’s “Blogs that Deserve a Bigger Audience” (DABA) for bloggers who deserve to be called Writers, and know the difference between prose and cons. You know, bloggers who get you off for their ideas and style. Until I come up with a name and a [...]