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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 | 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 […]
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
16
Description: Since keeping a blog I have learned that little lessons can form big ideas, altering what a teacher can and must do. I’ve recently moved my blog, and in doing so, I have reflected on every post along the way. Here is an anecdotal look at a few things my blog has taught me.
Here […]
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 […]
Jul
5
Overloaded and Unplugged
Category: Learning Conversations, Pro-D, blogging, connecting online, pairadimes, presentation, reflection, technology | 2 Comments
How much is too much?
I like to lurk in Twitter, but I’m having full-on conversations with Plurk. I just spent over an hour putting my Firefox tabs into diigo. After that I started cleaning up my desktop and found a screen capture I made on twirl over a month ago:
I also bookmarked this Liz […]
Jul
3
Presenting…
Category: Learning Conversations, blogging, connecting online, pairadimes, presentation, technology | 5 Comments
I missed out on NECC both physically and online. Despite my wonderful network, with @derrallg Ustreaming, and @durff plurking live links, I just could not find the time. I’ve read a few blog posts about NECC, but one has caught my attention. Ewan McIntosh is (Not) coping with cognitive overload:
I feel like the glass […]
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