April 19, 2008 – 10:34 am
This is pretty amazing.
From Jenny Luca and the students at Toorak College, an all-girls high school in Melbourne:
Yes, today is Friday and time for the customary school’s out post. This week it’s different, because school is definitely on for me and my students tomorrow as we stage our Project Global Cooling concert. Tune in to ustream […]
February 10, 2008 – 8:11 am
I gave this presentation at the Apple Distinguished Educators Institute in Bangkok in December of 2007. The conference room was freezing, to explain the ski cap.
Not only does it tell the story of how the international school I work at went 1:1, how that groundswell was created, how admin was persuaded to choose Macs […]
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January 23, 2008 – 10:13 am
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 anybody who […]
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January 14, 2008 – 5:04 am
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 […]
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September 28, 2007 – 11:21 am
That last post was supposed to report this:
1. Since those first two fragments I composed on GarageBand, I spent a couple or three hours watching Atomic Learning’s GarageBand screencast tutorials (paid subscription required), and they taught me a few things. Most importantly, they taught me how to change the key of different loops and […]
