Category Archives: k12online

Beyond Global Collaborative “Units,” on to Real PLN’s: Podcast with Chris Craft

http://pod.kis.or.kr//blojsom_resources/meta/cburell/Beyond%20Schooly%20Global%20Collaborations.m4a

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 international computer phone call now, […]

Notes on Warlick’s Keynote, Second Viewing

This post has been sitting in draft form for a couple weeks, and in that time I think I can condense my thoughts about David’s keynote into this brief list:
1. A True Southerner: I’m a USA Southerner (from Chattanooga, Tennessee), and recognized a fellow traveller in Dave. Yes, he likes to tell a story, […]

K12 Online Conference: Impressions So Far

My 20 Korean won regarding the K-12 Online Conference presentations I’ve watched or listened to so far.
General Impressions:
1. The Need for Classification of Presentations into a “Beginners - Advanced” Continuum
That heading pretty much says it all. K12O has a wildly diverse audience, and apparently an equally diverse group of presenters. Some of the […]

Blogging for Quality: Towards an Authentic Blogging Pedagogy

I’m still working out the ideas I got from watching Dean Shareski’s “Design Matters” K12 Online Conference presentation. I just applied the idea of quality design principles to an evaluative rubric called, “Why Do We Subscribe to Bloggers’ Blogs? Quality, Quality, Quality - 21st Century Style: A Guide for Secondary and University […]

Dean’s “Design Matters” - to My Walden 2.0 Project

[Welcome to Beyond School’s new home, by the way. This is my first post since leaving Blogger. If you subscribed to the old “BS,” please update your feed by subscribing to this new home on my own WordPress install. I’m excited to learn more about customizing WordPress by administering my own blog. You […]