A Different Kind of Marriage Work and life are still too busy to stop to blog, but this announcement excites me, because I’m not aware of anything like it happening in globally collaborative / flat classroom projects. And the more I think about it, the more interesting, pedagogically and geekily, it gets. It’s this: Because [...]

Who is the audience for this post? AudienceS is more accurate. They are people who are interested in: Expanding the Global Cooling Project – I’ve never been so excited about anything, and an update is overdue; Notes from the trenches of a teachergeek in his first weeks as tech coordinator at a new Apple 1:1 [...]

I know I’ve been a handful lately. Posts too long, thoughts too convoluted. “Think-alouds are messy.” Sorry. Worst of all, I’ve been shrill at times. That comes from what I see as an education system blindered beyond the school boundaries, and educators largely unwilling to reflect on that. But I’m more and more hopeful now, [...]

[This post is a watershed for me, stuffy as that may sound. Many loose threads needed weaving. I apologize for the tone, which I fear is typically more self-important and more harsh than I would like. I also apologize for the length. I hope you'll read it through, and thank you if you do. Update [...]

NECC 2007: Preparing Teachers to Lead in a Global Society (Lucy Gray, U Chicago) Scott Schwister of Higher Edison was nice enough to inform me that the 1001 Flat World Tales (book release late July) was mentioned in this NECC workshop as an “example of global collaboration.” Way out here in Korea, that’s nice to [...]

[This post has taken me a few days to write. I apologize for its length, and hope you'll read it to the end. When I started reading edublogs last December, Karl Fisch was my first. His Fischbowl frankly blew me away. I read it obsessively during my Winter Holiday vacation, started blogging my reactions to [...]

My last post failed to mention in its title that student reflections (only in response to the first of six questions) on the 1001 Flat World Tales flat classroom project were posted at the bottom. So now you know: they’re there. (Barbara, I’d promised this to you, and will post the rest–Hawaii’s and Seoul’s–within the [...]

Chris in Honolulu and I just finished a Skype conversation about improving the 1001 Flat World Tales flat classroom project for next year. We’re not finished with our talks, but one thing that came up, and warrants immediate public mention, is this: Our student reflections were overwhelmingly positive (and helpfully constructive when not), so we [...]

Just a quick note to say that this blog has been preempted by end-of-year duties such as: assessing (and overseeing publication of) the 1001 Flat World Tales (more soon: student reflections from Hawaii and Seoul already done, and Denver hopefully soon to follow; after that, teacher reflections) assessing and polishing the Broken World wiki-textbook with [...]

Phuket sunset Originally uploaded by rosswebsdale. Nothing like an illness to clear your head. Mine taught me a lesson in balance. I’ve been so fascinated by the possibilities of our sci-fi educational reality that I’ve forgotten to take care of myself well. It’s also a good time for silence in other ways. Things are slowing [...]