I’ve heard more than one teacher say that schools would run perfectly if it wasn’t for the students. Leaving aside the obvious point that without the students, the school itself wouldn’t exist, it also shows another belief that many, many teachers have. That belief runs something along the lines of that if you are involved [...]
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
I really enjoyed catching up with Alan Levine and Michael Coghlan over some fabulous Malaysian food in Gouger Street last night. Despite his virally ravaged throat and low energy levels, Alan was great to trade ideas with and I would love to have been able to make it to tomorrow’s presentation that has him here [...]
Leigh Blackall’s excellent post To facilitate or to teach is a great platform to tie together several ideas that I’ve been pondering. I really admire where Leigh is trying to go in his battle to lose his “teacherly” voice in the running of his online course. He explores the tensions between his perception of facilitation [...]
“Don’t believe the hype – it’s a sequel As an equal, can I get this through to you..” Artist: Public Enemy Album: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back 1988 This lyric strings together a lot of the online stuff I’ve been encountering and thinking about over the past week – kind [...]
From Twitter: grahamwegner Is it me or do blog posts seem to be taking more effort – or are there more distractions like twitter and skype? 09:26 PM October 04, 2007 from web chrislehmann @grahamwegner I think the new network makes short blogging less relevant, which means blogging has to be more substantive, which is [...]
Lots of edubloggers have been plugging this so I’m probably another echo in the aggregator but the second annual K12 Online Conference starts very soon. I’ll cut’n’paste the blurb so you get the gist if you haven’t already heard about it: The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative [...]
A vibrant exchange with Al Upton in the comments section here on this blog had me challenged with his point about educators being involved in “rich ongoing online learning that is reflected in their students’ learning.” What does that look like in the classroom? My classroom? Any classroom? Al was open about his class’s efforts: [...]
Name the second hottest elearning blog on the web. You’re reading it. Now before you choke on your Weetbix, coffee or whatever you happen to be consuming at this moment, bear in mind that this is the opinion of a new “service” on the web called Social Rank. I won’t link to it here right [...]
As part of the public school system here in South Australia, I have access to numerous resources and tools that help to measure my capabilities as an effective educator as well as provide essential data for possible future initiatives and directions. One tool that I’ve recently used is called EdCap (the Cap being short for [...]
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