In a post last month I mentioned seeing the need for short video presentations about web 2.0 in education, and posted a snippet from a parent presentation I gave at our 1:1 Apple Laptop School launch. That snippet focused only on the motivational power of a simple ClustrMap on a blog. Here’s another one: Less [...]

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 [...]

This post has been sitting in draft form for a couple weeks, and in that time I think I can condense my thoughts about David’s keynote into this brief list: 1. A True Southerner: I’m a USA Southerner (from Chattanooga, Tennessee), and recognized a fellow traveller in Dave. Yes, he likes to tell a story, [...]

My 20 Korean won regarding the K-12 Online Conference presentations I’ve watched or listened to so far. General Impressions: 1. The Need for Classification of Presentations into a “Beginners – Advanced” Continuum That heading pretty much says it all. K12O has a wildly diverse audience, and apparently an equally diverse group of presenters. Some of [...]

Every week is interesting when you’re launching an all-Apple Laptop high school. This week was no exception. I run a 40-minute Web 2.0 activity club every Thursday. (That experience, by the way, makes me weep for teachers who teach classes of less than an hour’s duration. I have time for almost nothing in 40 minutes [...]

Long presentations are great and all, but maybe quickies have their place as well. I can see the need. Here’s a 2-minute snippet from a presentation I gave to parents to launch our 1:1 Apple Laptop initiative back in August. I simply explain Clustrmaps by showing it on a blog with world-wide readers….written by a [...]

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.)

(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 [...]