If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Here’s an 8-minute promo movie I made for my school over the last few hours. I share it in case anyone wants a resource that talks through a couple of class projects we did last year in my grade 9 [...]

Twitter has definitely shifted my networking and online writing habits. A case in point: Since I’m 14 hours ahead of the American east coast, I mentioned how lonely it was to be awake on Twitter when most of my compatriots are asleep. Graham Wegner in Australia, whom I’m recently enjoyed getting to know, answered my [...]

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.)

Kent: Now, banish’d Kent, If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn’d, …Thy master, whom thou lovest, Shall find thee full of labours. –King Lear I.iv.5-8 Photo Credit: “Iron Team” by 3blindmice on Flickr (via Everystockphoto.com) What. an. intense. week. or two.My last post was a rant against what I perceived to be the [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I just left this comment on Doug Johnson’s Blue Skunk Blog post entitled “How can we help shape teacher attitudes toward technology?” Before you read it, don’t get me wrong. I think Ning is a great thing – but, at the risk of sounding like a prig and a purist, I don’t think it’s in [...]

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 [...]