Scroll to bottom to listen to the podcast. [Update 3 August 2008: If you want a written version of the same story, I did my best here.] [Update 2: I've copied Stephen Downes' comments about this post, and my own response to them, in the comments, if anybody is interested.] [Update: I've added the podcast [...]

The conversation about managing real student blogging – public, connective, prudent, real-world network-seeking – continues in the comments to my last post. Again, for RSS folks, not to be missed if this is a concern of yours. So I’m again posting the latest round of comments here. Doug Noon starts with a good challenging question, [...]

Wow. It’s been a heady 24 hours. My site went down on Friday night around 10pm, and at midnight my neighborhood lost internet service. When I woke this morning, it was still down. It came on at 11 a.m., and I had a new experience: my Blogging Parent Letter: Choose Your Privacy Levels post made [...]

JoonPyo, whether he realizes it or not, gives Sam Harris some competition with his “God Did It” post, in which he constructs a decent hypothesis on the historical and psychological origins of religion, and its survival in the world today. Nice style, nice argument, though no connectivism with other writers, which damns this fine post [...]

Since this is a perennial issue, I’m sharing this letter to parents about our student blogging launch in my AP Literature class. It’s important to realize that this approach is tailored to the age group of my 17-year-old seniors. They’ll be considered adults in a few short months, so I designed this parent approach with [...]

Eight minutes on how to 1) find content on Creative Commons, 2) use Zamzar to download YouTube and other videos for mashups. (It’s also posted on my “Teaching Gallery” static page.) [Update: Photos credited in final titles, plus CC licensing added.] Coming in Episode 2: Still Photo Skills: Advanced use of the Ken Burns Effect.

[Welcome to Beyond School's new home, by the way. This is my first post since leaving Blogger. If you subscribed to the old "BS," please update your feed by subscribing to this new home on my own WordPress install. I'm excited to learn more about customizing WordPress by administering my own blog. You can expect [...]