Sep

30

TLITE Presentations

Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, networks, pairadimes, presentation, technology | Leave a Comment

For the last couple Mondays I have presented to two of Betty Gilgoff’s TLITE Classes, (TLITE- Teaching and Learning in an Information Technology Environment). I did two different presentations one based loosely on Learning Conversations and the other on This My Blog has Taught Me. Both presentations asked for teachers to contribute to a VoiceThread […]

Sep

25

Connectivism, Relationships and Balance

Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, blogging, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 11 Comments

Connectivism, Relationships and Balance
View SlideShare presentation. (tags: cck08 connectivism)

I created this for an assignment in the connectivism course, CCK08. It is not what the assignment really asked for, but when you are doing a not-for-credit course, I imagine that you can make the assignments fit your own personal needs. The reality is that Figure 6 […]

Sep

19

What ‘we’ want for ‘our’ children

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, compassion, leadership, pairadimes, presentation, reflection | Leave a Comment

Heidi Hass Gable has done something special!
Here is her presentation, What I Want for My Children:

Her post simply says this:
My hope is that it will move you, it will motivate you,
it will make you think and it will inspire you to get involved in your child’s education,
to support your teachers and to be part of […]

Sep

16

Who are the people in your neighbourhood?

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 17 Comments

I grew up watching Sesame Street and singing along to ‘Who are the people in your neighbourhood‘.
Well the concept of neighbourhood has really changed for me. I showed this movie in Powerpoint format at one of my presentations at BLC08 this summer. Afterwards, I think it was one of 3 people, (Liz Davis, Laura Deisley, […]

Sep

14

A Brave New World-Wide-Web! (The video version)

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, digital native, instructional design, learning, networks, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 21 Comments

It is finally done! I had planned on first showing my video version of A Brave New World-Wide-Web Slideshow in Boston at BLC08. I did it on Mac Powerpoint and it did not convert easily to video… it wouldn’t even convert to PC Powerpoint without the timing messing up! I spent hours on this! […]

Sep

2

By Design: Please keep the toilet seat in the upright position!

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, Square Peg, blogging, books I like, connecting online, education, humour, instructional design, leadership, learning, lessons, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 3 Comments

[This post is about questioning why we do what we do, so that we can do things in new, better ways. It specifically looks at design, differentiated instruction and assessment.]
I’m going to flush out an idea here and maybe even start a movement!
If you want to sit on a dry toilet seat, then […]

Aug

29

Great Expectations

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, Social Responsibility, leadership, learning, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 2 Comments

Yesterday I had coffee with Heidi Hass Gable, our new District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) President, and blogger at “I was thinking…“. I suggested to her that she watch Lost Generation while we were discussing some well thought out ideas she shared with me about nothing less than the purpose of education. Here is the […]

Aug

16

beg for foregiveness

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, leadership, lessons, pairadimes, reflection, technology | 2 Comments

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 | 6 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 | 8 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 […]

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