Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched: Meme guidelines Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay – students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. – feel free to pick [...]
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Education Podcasts Meme: Warlick, Fryer-McLeod, a Young Writer, and an Impassioned Secular Humanist
Friday, 12 October 2007
Late Night Last Minute Workshop Touches: a Prof Dev Wiki Share
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
(click for larger image) I have to wake up in five hours to run this conference tomorrow, so I’ll probably be worthless. But the opening session – an hour-and-a-half warmer – will consist largely of this competition, in four-person faculty teams led by one captain each, to race through this wiki page and be first [...]
Screencast Quickie: Using Firefox Addon "MeasureIt" to Size a Twitter Group Badge for Our Professional Development Ning
Tuesday, 2 October 2007
That has to be the geekiest title I’ve ever written. I promise it’s English. Anyway: Just a little tutorial share about one of the million reasons I love Firefox web-browser (and curse at my students lovingly when they open things in Internet Explorer, or even Safari). I’m talking about Firefox Addons. This 4 minute tutorial [...]
A Comment Thread Worth Sharing: Ninging vis-a-vis Blogging, Staff Development 2.0 Approaches
Monday, 1 October 2007
I really shouldn’t do this, being ham-strung for time, but I really should do this regardless. The feedback to my last post deserves a better fate than staying hidden from feed subscribers. So down and dirty time. First, for context, here’s the brief original post. The basic questions were: 1. Should we approach workshops as [...]
Is "Ninging" the Same Thing as Blogging? and other questions about 21st c. staff development
Saturday, 29 September 2007
Add Your Classes and Favorite Tools to the Wiki (update)
Saturday, 29 September 2007
More from the previous posts. I’m having a lot of fun creating that staff development wiki. The “Digital Arts for Multiple Intelligences” pages are coming along nicely, but unevenly, so your input would be great (thanks, Patrick and Diane!). I’ve also got a page called “Links to Real World Examples of 21st Century Educators.” I’ve [...]
Back to GarageBand: Not Quitting Day Job – Yet
Friday, 28 September 2007
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 [...]
Unlocking Teacher Creativity: An Approach to Staff Development?
Friday, 28 September 2007
I posted recently about learning from Wes Fryer‘s Shanghai workshop how easy it is to compose original music on Apple’s GarageBand. I posted my first two fragments (one funk, one trance), both of which I made in less than 20 minutes, and made in front of a student audience during a demo. More interestingly, that [...]
Overdrive: That Classroom Blogging Grail, and How Teaching and Grading Obstruct It
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
I’ve been up all night catching up on my reading, which these days means feed-reading, more than anything. Two that struck a chord: 1. That LearnerBlogosphere Idea Sylvia Martinez on the red-hot GenYES blog writes several posts about getting teens to use Web 2.0 independently – like we adult edubloggers do – to develop their [...]
How They Do Surprise Us, These People We Call Students
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
I’m catching up on grading and assessing on my AP Literature Ning – that’s where most assignments are posted, so student-people can see each others’ work, and my replies to everybody, not just to them – and was wowed by JungHee. How? I assigned Keats‘ stunning last sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I were Stedfast as [...]






