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Aug
16
beg for foregiveness
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, lessons, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 
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Sometimes it is better to beg for forgiveness
than it is to ask for permission.
We’ve all heard that before, but we can’t all be Gary Stager and do what we want when we want. [Please see the first two comments for some clarification on this statement.] Sometimes we have to be political, sometimes we have to […]
Aug
14
Are You a Catalyst for Change?
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, Social Responsibility, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring | 5 Comments
It is now a month after BLC08 and a recent comment has stirred up some thoughts that sent me back to a blog draft I wrote months ago. On Defragging my brain after BLC08, Angela Kerns mentioned that of my nine ‘take-aways’, #3 and #4 resonated with her:
3. Face-to-face meetings with your network are powerful… […]
Aug
9
hidden pain
Category: Learning Conversations, compassion, education, pairadimes, reflection | 7 Comments
I’m back from a wonderful holiday… in 12 days we visited my sister and family in L.A., and went to San Diego where we visited the Wild Animal Park, Zoo, and SeaWorld (twice). We also went to Disney/California Adventure for 3 days. My kids had a fantastic time, and I found more joy in their […]
Jul
22
defragging my brain after BLC08
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, networks, pairadimes, presentation, technology | 5 Comments
For a while now, I’ve been using my blog as a learning space to reflect on professional development… and after BLC08 there still seems to be a lot to talk and think about. But there is a problem: My brain is full.
Here are some brief ‘take-aways’ to jot down before things spill out and away.
1. […]
Jul
20
Canadians… this is scary!
Category: education, instructional design, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | 1 Comment
Bill C-61 is a copyright law that is truly scary to anyone that shares what they teach online.
The following is an e-mail I received from Kris at http://wanderingink.net She is 16 years old. Bold font is mine, for those that only want to skim…
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Fair Copyright Montreal (a branch of the same […]
Jul
17
Learning Conversations -Presentation 2, BLC08
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, connecting online, education, leadership, lessons, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 4 Comments
This presentation has two parts:
1. Where do our learning conversations need to go? Here are three guiding principles to help us find our way:
• Not the Knowing, but the Process of Inquiry.
• Not covering the curriculum, but ‘uncovering’ the curriculum.
• A focus in innovation, creativity and design.
How do we model this… every day?
Here is a […]
Jul
15
Alan November’s BLC08 pre-conference
Category: Learning Conversations, connecting online, education, leadership, learning, networks, pairadimes, presentation, technology | 2 Comments
“Leading the Transition”
I’m in the session now… WOW… so I’ll be brief.
Alan asked me to start a Shared Google Document here it is: http://fon.gs/blc08precongdoc/
And here is the Ustream: http://fon.gs/blc08preconustream/
Here is what it looks like from my perspective: (I pulled out my tablet which is on my lap to do this post)
Special thanks to my new […]
Jun
27
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMMM…
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, education, leadership, metaphor, pairadimes, presentation, student leadership, technology | Leave a Comment
This blog has a subtitle: Reflections on Education, Technology and Learning
My other less-frequently used blog, ‘Practic-All’, is subtitled, Pragmatic tools and ideas for the classroom. Recently I started using this other blog to provide a digital addition to my Principal’s weekly e-mail update. I did 9 of these to end the year off. I called […]
Jun
20
Inaction is action
Category: Social Responsibility, compassion, education, leadership, pairadimes | 2 Comments
Someone I know has a child in elementary school. That child came home and complained,
“It’s no fair!”
“What’s not fair?” Her mother asks.
“We were lined up to go to the computer lab and two boys were noisy so we didn’t go.”
“What did you do instead?”
“Extra math sheets.”
And what was done about this? Nothing. No parent complaint […]
Jun
16
Something from Nothing
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, books I like, connecting online, education, learning, pairadimes, reflection | Leave a Comment
A Blog from Nothing
I remember when I put a ClustrMap on my blog. I saw one on a novel study wiki and thought it would be great for student wikis & blogs, to help students see that they have a global audience. It took me over an hour to figure out how and where to […]
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