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And finally, I will leave you with this:
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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 […]
May
24
The Lowest Common Denominator (No, this isn’t about Math)
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The LCD
In Math, the Lowest Common Denominator (LCD) is a good thing…
it allows you to simplify an equation and usually makes the work easier. (If you were looking for a Math post go here or here.)
For the sake of this post the LCD is not good.
Here, the LCD is when you reduce things to in […]
May
19
Halloween Scavenger Hunt on Ning
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Below is a Halloween Scavenger Hunt I did on a (private) Ning Network that I created for a class Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) project I am doing in my two Planning 10 classes.
The scavenger hunt does the following:
Introduces students to flickr and , and;
It teaches them to insert and site a photo […]
May
18
Two ’stuck’ posts, a borrowed post with an added rant, and a few questions.
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I have 2 blog posts on the go right now that I can’t get myself to complete.
One is on Digital Citizenship which looks at a post by Vicky A. Davis. The concepts I am formulating are in need of some more deep thought, and I don’t know when I will get […]
May
15
FieldFindr: Using Ning to Connect Teachers to Volunteers
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“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.”
FieldFindr: Where teachers can meet global citizens with skills to share.
It started with a post and a […]
May
11
Digital immigrants or digital natives? A discussion of digital competence… A spectrum, not a dichotomy!
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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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Apr
26
School 2.0h no, not yet…
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I’ve been having this conversation in a few different places, and now I need to put my thoughts together. Here is a summary of some discussions and e-mail messages, a Wesley Fryer’s post “Advice for designing the school of the future” and my comment there, and my forum post in the School 2.0 social network […]
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