Doug Belshaw wrote an interesting post about the changes he’s seeing in the edublogosphere and laments the effect of many more, less revolutionary voices. Whilst it’s great that there’s more educators than ever blogging, tweeting, etc. the focus has shifted. Those that were formerly in the classroom and relating the changing world and tools available [...]
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Chris Lehmann has written some of the best posts for my money in 2008 and his timing always seems to be impeccable. His recent Letter To A New Teacher spoke to all teachers, new or experienced, regardless of sector or country and I found Chasing False Gods to be really good fodder for my own [...]
I’ve been recently tagged by Doug, Patrick and then today, David. It’s been everywhere and dodged me until now. I thought I had the perfect photo if someone ever decided that this game of tag should come this way until I checked and found it was © copyright. So, I’ve found a CC version that [...]
For readers following the situation of Al Upton and the miniLegends and their recent blog closure, it’s worth checking back at the blog now for Al’s Update No. 2. It outlines the sequence of events, where the miniLegends are up to now and promises another Update No. 3 in the near future. Al writes: … [...]
Al Upton had a day he’d rather not repeat yesterday. Without rehashing all of the details (I wouldn’t want to get any of them wrong) it culminated with a request to close down his widely renown and globally acknowledged class blog, the miniLegends. If you go to his blog now, you will be confronted by [...]
I pride myself on my spelling ability. So much that I can get indignant when confronted with the accusation that my lifelong memory of a word is actually incorrect. But who can argue when the Wikipedic wisdom of crowds defines the right spelling for me… Luckily for me, perhaps I’m merely contributing to the evolution [...]
Being able to recall the multiplication times tables quickly is still a skill highly prized by many parents (and teachers). Maybe it’s a concrete link between their rote learning chant of their school experiences and the mathematics that their child has to grapple with. And being in confident command of basic number facts does help [...]
I’ve finally done it this year. Got my class started with blogs and blogging, that is. While it’s early stages and they are still playing with the technology, I want to get them focussed on the connective capabilities and possibilities that this tool has before it becomes a novelty for digital writing. Enter Al Upton [...]
On Saturday, I had the opportunity to present to my biggest crowd yet – over 100 early childhood educators at the Term 1 EChO half day conference. It was a focus on technology and I was the closing act after Trudy Sweeney’s opening keynote about Web 2.0. All went pretty well until slide 35… where [...]
‘Connecting to the Millennium Generation‘ Dr. Trudy Sweeney Lecturer of Digital Media Flinders University I was a bit slow in getting this post up and going so the beginning is a bit thin. Trudy is the president of our local ed-tech association CEGSA (Computers in Education Group of South Australia) and this keynote was a [...]
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