In the depths of New York City, on top of the Empire State Building, a creature rested. That creature was me…. I’m moved to plug Many Voices, a Twitter creative writing global collaboration (ages 5-13?) created by George Mayo in Washington, D.C. The more I think about it, the more brilliant it is. [Update: I [...]

This isn’t theoretical – necessarily. It could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Given a 1:1 MacBook school, a geeky teacher, no bandwidth or filtering or blocking restrictions, how would you design an elective class to showcase 21st century learning possibilities? I’ve got an elective “writing seminar” beginning next week, with about ten students [...]

Reading a post by NJ Tech Teacher (we tweet) that aligned with the Traveler IQ test from the post below prompted me to post my own World 66 maps. A little more yuletide fluff. I didn’t leave the US until the Army helped me escape in ’98. But while in the States, I had the [...]

Tis the season to be jolly. We only live once, so let’s end this most amazing year with some well-crafted, twitterary prose. Don’t know what a Twittory is? Yet another amazing OZucator, Mike Seyfang, turned me on to this with his most excellent post today (from his most explosively creative edublog), in which he writes: [...]

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 Bloggers.” (Brevity was [...]

Here’s an 8-minute promo movie I made for my school over the last few hours. I share it in case anyone wants a resource that talks through a couple of class projects we did last year in my grade 9 history and English classes – and shamelessly boasts about how special my school is for [...]

Twitter has definitely shifted my networking and online writing habits. A case in point: Since I’m 14 hours ahead of the American east coast, I mentioned how lonely it was to be awake on Twitter when most of my compatriots are asleep. Graham Wegner in Australia, whom I’m recently enjoyed getting to know, answered my [...]

This time last year I was so new to the edublogosphere, I didn’t know about the K-12 Online Conference, so I missed it. MISSED IT? What century am I in? I just watched last year’s keynote about an hour ago. Anyway, this year’s converence goes live in less than an hour, and I’m curious to [...]

Head on over to Patrick Higgins‘ Voicethread for his staff development workshop to both explore one very nifty educational tool and to have fun helping Patrick at the same time! (Yes, the W.C. Fields icon is mine.)

Last week, I mentioned reading Jeff Wasserman’s post about how schools teach bad writing (the 5-Paragraph Essay and other abominations). I mentioned how it made me “want to make my AP Lit class Ning public. We’re having forum discussions about Organic Form v. Mechanical.” The more I thought about atomizing those Ning walls and welcoming [...]