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Way past bedtime, but it’s Chusok – Korean Thanksgiving holiday – and I have the week off. And I want to share this link to the prototype of the Project Global Cooling website, which we’ll migrate to its own URL next week, and permanently open up to global, student-created content for annual contributions. I share [...]

A message to all members of The Global Cooling Collective Visit The Global Cooling Collective This is Mr. Burell in Seoul. I just bought the projectglobalcooling.org web address (“domain”) from godaddy.com, and am going to teach any students – in any participating country – the process of creating and administering that website. (That site will [...]

Oof. 1.42 a.m., not through my first cup of coffee after sleeping off the return flight from the Learning 2.0 Conference in my old home and Favorite City in the World, Shanghai, and so probably ill-advised to attempt this post right now. But it’s back to class in 6 hours, and we all know how [...]

The only thing worth quitting is smoking. (I’m on day 4, by the way.) This project is not worth quitting. It’s growing in a really fun, easy, fascinating way. Here’s an update about developments on the planning Ning (the “Global Cooling Collective,” which is again now open for easy membership or lurking), in our school [...]

After my semi-literate support technician nuked my entire VPS server – Moodle and WordPress MU, including a year of student blogs from last year – I managed to restore a backup after several scares. So the blogs are saved. Moodle is back. And so is a prototype of the Project Global Cooling website. We’ll give [...]

Prison Exercise Yard: Photo by Jon’s pics Student: “Ms. Stucco says I have to quit Project Global Cooling to go to the Class Council Representative meetings every week.” Me: “And you explained to her you’d been volunteering on this project all summer, that you’re an important player in it, and that it’s community service in [...]

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 [...]

[Update: A fuller discussion of Peak Oil and the A Crude Awakening documentary is taking place at Crooks and Liars. Skeptics and believers are listening and debating there.] I wonder if Cassandra, as the Greeks approached Troy, got more silent indifference from those she tried to warn, or instead argumentation and debate? My guess is [...]

I don’t want to spoil the new Harry Potter movie for anyone who’s not seen it, but I saw it last night and, hot on the heels of the “Convergences” post I wrote a day or two ago, saw the film mostly as a critique of schools when they’re at their irrelevant worst. I’ll just [...]