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 […]

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… […]

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

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

This, my blog has taught me - Presentation 1, BLC08

Category: pairadimes | 4 Comments

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 […]

Jun

7

Do not go quietly into your classroom

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, education, instructional design, leadership, learning, pairadimes, presentation, restructuring, technology | 5 Comments

I spent Friday morning with 22 student teachers and a couple teachers from my school. My goal was to introduce them to the world of web2.0, wikis, and del.icio.us. Well 2 out of 3 ain’t bad- I didn’t really get into delicious beyond an introduction. That aside, I think this group of future teachers really […]

Jun

7

Instantaneous

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, School2.0, blogging, connecting online, digital native, education, instructional design, learning, networks, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | Leave a Comment

Kim Cofino writes on Twitter:
Join us in our uStream session: http://ustream.tv/channel/isb-edu-stream Conversations about the Future of Learning in a Networked World.

I click the link to uStream and find that 12 others have also joined her meeting, later there were 17 of us.

Vance Stevens is talking and a participant in the meeting links to the slide […]

May

22

The Flickering (Never)Mind

Category: Learning Conversations, Pedegogy, Pro-D, connecting online, learning, networks, pairadimes, restructuring, technology | 1 Comment

A colleague and good friend sent this review of The Flickering Mind to me, wanting to hear my rebuttal. Here it is!
This outdated book, The Flickering Mind, is based on very poor research, it lacks any meaningful data, and it seeks out the worst of the worst in order to prove a point. How about […]

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 […]

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