Educators new to twitter, here is a little walk down memory lane… Remember your first days of university? You weren’t sure what to expect and you had to put yourself ‘out there’ to connect to new people? Do you remember going to a class and not knowing anyone? Imagine for a moment that you enter, […]
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FieldFindr: Using Ning to Connect Teachers to Volunteers
“A portal to Connect Classrooms to the World: Global Citizens can Share Talents and Skills with Students. Teachers can find Global Citizens (Volunteers) willing to help in a field of interest that they are working on in their class.” [*Update: Links to the ning will not work after Aug. 20th, 2010 – See the 1st […]
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Statement of Educational Philosophy
[Originally posted May 23rd,’07] I wrote this three years ago, but recently had to make a change… As little as one year ago the second paragraph did not exist for me, and now it is placed in a position of importance. I post my Statement of Educational Philosophy now, after reading and posting a comment […]
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A Story About A Tree
Not long ago, if a group of ‘gamers’ got together for Dungeons and Dragons, people saw it as strange. Teenagers bonding by getting together and creating alter egos, or characters and living out a fantasy. Role Playing Gamers were sometimes perceived as a ‘fringe’ group of lost souls that lack a full grip on reality. […]
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Pizzas and Paperclips
I am combining two short posts here: —————————————– Ordering a pizza in in the near future. Turn your speakers on for this one… a little dark humour about living in a wired world. Ordering from Pizza Palace. Originally posted April 6th, 2006 —————————————– One Red Paperclip We live in a wired world where a man […]
