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Archives for posts tagged ‘Global Cooling Project’
Beautiful, Relevant, Teacherless
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
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 [...]
PGC Update: An Invitation to Students Wanting to Learn Website Administration
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
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 [...]
I’m Still Amazed: Notes from Shanghai Learning 2.0 Conference
Sunday, 16 September 2007
Project Global Cooling Update: Hawaii, Seoul, Kazakhstan – Week 3 and Growing
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
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 [...]
Unbreaking Things: All Systems Go (incl. Project Global Cooling Website)
Saturday, 1 September 2007
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 [...]
Student Council: Creating Tomorrow’s Followers (or, "Smells Like School Spirit")
Saturday, 1 September 2007
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 [...]
A Gallery of Hats: Overdue Updates
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
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 [...]
Cassandra and Curriculum as Usual: "A Crude Awakening"
Monday, 30 July 2007
[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 [...]
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (movie): an Education Allegory
Saturday, 21 July 2007






