I had a parent (Mrs. Murray) send me this link which is an amazing example of how virtual education is The Palace Museum and IBM where she works has just launched a virtual re-creation of the palace grounds, architecture, and artifacts as they were during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Beyond Space and Time is [...]
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I was listening to the TWiT #161 The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte: Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jason Calicanis, Andrew Horowitz, and Geoff Smith on my way to work this morning and was amazed by what I was hearing. Besides talking about many topics, they spent a fair amount of time discussing TechCrunch50 Conference [...]
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On Wednesday August 20, I and about 30 students and faculty had the opportunity to participate in a live International Polar Year event with Dr. Gerty Ward. She is the Durham Academy Science teacher that has been participating in the PolarTREC Expedition We spent the first 30 minutes or so listening and watching pre-recorded [...]
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I attended a conference yesterday where I presented along with colleagues on how our school is using Moodle and the impact it has had for changing the educational environment of our school. I started by showing a log of recent activity which is followed by my speech about “Walled Garden and Safe Digital Network” that [...]
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Students today are wonderful teachers of teachers when given the opportunity to share what they have learned from their learning network. I was working with a sixth grade class on their podcasting project for History. We were learning how to research using web sites, citing of sources, creating a Keynote slide presentation to use as [...]
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I listened to Ben Wilkoff ’s presentation at the K12 Online Conference on “Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders” He does an incredible job of laying out the framework needed to have institutional change happen. If you are at all interested in learning what can be done with the new tools, check out [...]
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Wesley Freyer was one of quite a few presenters at the Learning 2.0 conference at the Concordia International School Shanghai, Pudong 201206, Shanghai held in September of this year. Wesley podcasted one of Alan’s sessions called: Creating globally connected, rigorous and highly motivated assignments. This podcast is worth listening to as it is 1 hour [...]
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Tech Learning Educator’s eZine appeared in my email today. Instead of clicking on it to delete it because I was too busy, I thought I would take a look as a title grabbed my attention: Open Source Learning: How well do you share?. The article by Cheryl Oakes hit the spot with me. I am [...]
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I came upon a new term and resources that demonstrate the reality of my earlier post on Wikinomics. On a side note, I seem to be getting a lot of underlined words as I type, meaning I am writing about subjects using words that are being coined and presently are not in dictionaries that are [...]
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I have been “reading” the book Wikinomics while driving to work and on my morning walk. I read it by listening to it on my iPod. I think all educators as well as business people need to read this book as it illustrates the dramatic changes that “mass collaboration’ or “peer production” is causing in [...]
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