Revival?

Sorry for the barage of posts, but this blog finally works again. The authors of FeedWordpress have updated their plugin to work with Wordpress 2.7.1 and now the syndication works again. I am going to be thinking about how to revive this community of wonderful bloggers.

Flippin’ Nora!

We have been using the Flip mino cameras in our school for just over a week. Yesterday I quickly gathered some ideas together about how teachers were using them. This is what I got back from our staff. Nursery and Foundation Used in the role play area in classroom and for speaking and listening activities Useful for assessment [...]

The beginning of the end cont…

Last week I wrote about the beginning of end for schools with the creation and launch of the University of the People that will accept its first class later this year. A University degree for free…or for very little money comparatively. Using free content on the web and a notion that learners can teach each [...] Related posts:

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Social Networking Workshop for Parents

Last week the Ed Tech team here at my school held a 3 hour social networking workshop for parents. The workshop was requested by parents after we made a brief presentation to the school board back in November. Before we began we took a quick poll of the 20 parents (all mothers): Non had a Facebook [...] Related posts:

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2. Parents want to know
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Thai Teaching Course Module 2: Thai-Style Governance

With the recent political crisis there in Thailand, it’s great to hear the history of where Thailand has come from to get to this point. The first coup happened in 1932 and since then the Thai government has gone through a lot. Through out the history of Thailand the King has played a major roll. All [...] Related posts:

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Gone Skype’n!

Back in November and December I worked with a small group of grade 5 students on the Flat Classroom Project. Our group acted as a Sounding Board for the project participants, and after finishing their part of the process, were very interested in actually speaking to some of the students whose work they had peer [...]

Blog Posts for thought Feb. 8

I’ve spend the past week doing a lot of blog reading. With 40+ students taking the grad course here at ISB and another 8 that I’m teaching for PSU makes for a lot of blog reading in a week. I predicted this year would be about building value with these tools and that I personally [...] Related posts:

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