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Jun
27
THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMMM…
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, education, leadership, metaphor, pairadimes, presentation, student leadership, technology | 
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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
19
Edupunk or Educational Leader?
Category: Learning Conversations, books I like, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection | 7 Comments
Confession #1: I had planned on calling this post, “Edupunk or edubunk?”
bunk: nonsense- a message that seems to convey no meaning
That was before reading this simple, but very powerful post by Jen D. Jones. Now I need to change my approach. My main point sits under Confession #3 below.
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Jun
7
And finally, I will leave you with this:
Category: Learning Conversations, connecting online, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
This is the end of my last post on our class Ning network for Planning 10 this term. The first link isn’t really appropriate but my students get my sense of humour by now, and we just finished talking about sex-ed, so I put it in anyway. For reasons I cannot express in this venue […]
Jun
3
“You can’t go back now, can you?”
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, connecting online, education, instructional design, leadership, metaphor, pairadimes, technology | 2 Comments
It’s the old allegory of the cave.
Last Friday I was leaving the school and I popped into my VP’s office. Among other things, Anthony and I often talk about technology in the classroom. One thing led to another and I showed him the YouTube video that was the subject of my last post: iPhone tutorial […]
Jun
2
Evaluating a Journey
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, education, instructional design, metaphor, pairadimes, presentation, reflection | Leave a Comment
Have you ever spent hours working on something and then looked at the final product only to wonder where the time and effort went? That’s how I feel about the rubric I have been working on for the Graduation Transitions Program (for which I am the coordinator at our school).
Last year, under the old program, […]
May
17
INDEXED - a ‘graph’ is worth a thousand words
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, education, humour, metaphor, pairadimes | Leave a Comment
Jessica Hagy uses graphs to make sense of our world. She is deft at finding hidden truths in places we all look at, but are blind to. I will share one such graph with you now, and link to two more on her blog…. head there and find your own favorites.
Interesting people are interested.
I have […]
May
11
Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy!
Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, digital native, education, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, reflection, restructuring, technology | 4 Comments
Amy Capelle has started a very interesting discussion in Ning’s Classroom2.0
She asks, “Are they really digital natives?”
The discussion there is great! Here is my response:
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May
9
Start with Innovative Schools…
Category: Learning Conversations, books I like, education, leadership, metaphor, networks, pairadimes, restructuring | Leave a Comment
“How can the next president better help small business and entrepreneurs thrive?”
That was the question that US Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama asked on LinkedIn. A day later I posted response #1421. Here it is:
The definition for ‘Entrepreneur’ came from Google using ‘define: entrepreneur’, but I did not link to it since the link […]
May
7
Presentation Week
Category: education, leadership, metaphor, pairadimes, presentation | Leave a Comment
I have not used PowerPoint very many times in my life. However, I have sat through, and sometimes suffered through, many as part of an audience. So I felt a little intimidated when Nicoletta, one of my Vice Principals in my new school, asked me to create a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the new Graduation […]
May
6
Transitions, Transformations, and Transgressions
Category: blogging, books I like, leadership, learning, metaphor, pairadimes, reflection, student leadership | 1 Comment
- Originally posted August 28th, 2007 -
If you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
Transitions
I’ve taken a job at a high school and I am looking forward to the new challenge! After seven years of teaching Grade 8’s and two years of teaching Grade 9’s, I will now […]
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