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At my first Educon 2008 This will be my fifth Educon, and over time, my relationship with this conference has changed, from the freshman excitement of meeting everyone for the first time at Educon 2.0 , to the highly anticipated sophomore year, when I Read More...
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First semester has just ended and I am finally taking a breath and a moment to blog. I know it has been forever. I've been in the thick of teaching 7th grade English and setting up an iPad pilot for our school. Both have been extremely time consuming. Read More...
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I was ready to love it. I put my name on the list the day it was announced. I waited and waited. When it finally shipped, I tracked that shipment like a hawk. Then it arrived. My school has recently decided to do an iPad pilot. We are deploying 30 iPads Read More...
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“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/derbaum/14504516/ - The Media is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects . McLuhan & Fiore. p74 Everything we look at is shaped by our experiences. Read More...
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The front page of today's New York Times boasted an article about the "failure" of technology in the classroom. Titled, In Classroom of the Future, Stagnant Scores , the article describes a school in Arizona where, despite a huge investment in technology, Read More...
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This summer my entire faculty read the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. The book lays out some clear ideas for how to make change in an organization. The authors use a metaphor of an elephant, suggesting there Read More...
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On Monday, July 25th Lisa Thumann and I are facilitating our 4th Edubloggercon Unconference. It will be held at the Park Plaza Hotel, thanks to the generosity of Alan November, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Come all day or just for part of it. (If you want to Read More...
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A student at my school was diagnosed with cancer last year. He has just started a blog and wrote to me a few weeks ago to ask if I could give him advice on how to get more readers. I suggested that one of the ways would be for me to share a link to his Read More...
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I just finished reading The Medium is the Massage. An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore . Published in 1967, it is a prescient work, predicting with amazing accuracy the effects of technology on our lives. Here are a few quotes Read More...
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Thanks to everyone who participated in my survey. I greatly appreciate your input. Here is a link to the results (I have removed email addresses). You can also see the results embedded below. Scroll to the right and down to see more responses. Read More...
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It was a great day. Over 100 educators came together to create and consume their own learning. I guess what is most amazing to me is that it wasn't amazing to me. I'm not surprised it was a great day. I wasn't nervous that it wouldn't go well and I had Read More...
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For the month of May I signed up to do 31 classes of yoga in 31 days at a studio very near my house. Thus far I have completed 10 classes in the last 10 days. This may explain all of these yoga related posts. There is a pose in yoga where you lay on your Read More...
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by dreambird I started doing yoga almost one year ago. This week I've been noticing the little bits of progress I have made in my practice. They are very little bits, but I'm trying to take note of each one and not take them for granted. I can now touch Read More...
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I blogged a while back about organizing a faculty poetry festival. Well, it happened in the middle of March and was a lot of fun. I recited the Poem, "What Teachers Make, or Objection Overruled, or If things don't work out, you can always go to law school" Read More...
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