Standing on a corner in Hong Kong – It ain’t so good to be alone in Hong Kong. –Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool) Just a quickie to [...]

First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century: Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo [...]

This isn’t theoretical – necessarily. It could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. Given a 1:1 MacBook school, a geeky teacher, no bandwidth or filtering or blocking restrictions, how would you design an elective class to showcase 21st century learning possibilities? I’ve got an elective “writing seminar” beginning next week, with about ten students [...]

If I’ve learned anything in this year of blogging, it’s that good ideas need ritual repetition before they gain traction, find support, and become realities. So here goes (and the second point is far more important than the first): Scott McLeod just wrote a very nice post about the launch, and the future, of Students [...]

Finally: read comments and leave your own without leaving your Bloglines BETA! Finally. See the whole blog from your RSS reader (how could you go a week without new papa and writer extraordinaire Scott Schwister beaming at you from his blog? How can you miss my latest “Iraq War Costs” sidebar widget and all the [...]

In my last post, I made a couple sins of omission when giving thanks and measuring the success of Students 2.0. Sin 1: Thanks to Stephen Downes for supporting the launch by featuring it in his (very influential, and rightfully so) OLDaily. Sin 2: I didn’t mention what is, to me, the most valuable aspect [...]

If you haven’t read Ryan Bretag‘s and Steve Hargadon‘s posts on TechLearning about Students 2.0, they’re worth a read. And Steve’s podcast interview with Kevin, Sean, and Lindsey shows them at their wonderful best, in terms of both intelligence and personality. I haven’t really written any reflections here since launching Students 2.0 back on December [...]

Here’s a fun Traveler’s IQ test for you. Timing counts! Report back here with a comment. Let’s get Diane Cordell and Steven Downes in the ring again – time to “flip another goat-sucker”! My score, first time:   And see “related links” below for a few other challenges you can take! Photo Credit: Stuart R [...]

Tis the season to be jolly. We only live once, so let’s end this most amazing year with some well-crafted, twitterary prose. Don’t know what a Twittory is? Yet another amazing OZucator, Mike Seyfang, turned me on to this with his most excellent post today (from his most explosively creative edublog), in which he writes: [...]

I’ve wanted to help this happen for the last five months. And I need your help to launch it with quality and good aim. Just a thoughtful comment consisting of a short list is all we ask. First, a recap. Why re-write what was already obsessively written since May? So: What would happen if we [...]