Frances Manning writes two very good blogs. Yes, two! I’m flat out managing one. HFS conversations and Personal Thoughts about Learning. She posted this video on her personal thoughts blog and titled it Re-focus.
I watched it and it connected with me. I long for the down time right now. I’ve just [...]
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November 30, 2008
Re-focus is on the agenda.
November 28, 2008
Networked Student - Wendy Drexler has helped us out.
Wendy Drexler has created this very useful video explaining how students can benefit from operating and learning in a connected environment. She has very cleverly borrowed from the film techniques employed by Lee and Sachi Lefever to create a very effective means of explaining what many of us try to convey to [...]
November 28, 2008
School’s out Friday
That’s it. I’m never complaining again. Imagine having to do this everyday when you went to work!!
He does have some incredible skill. It reminds me of my recent time in China. One of the things I liked to do was to watch the people riding bikes with the most unbelievable loads [...]
November 24, 2008
World Teachers Every Day - apparently I’m one!
Recently I entered a competition offered by the Victorian Institute of Teaching. It was in honour of World Teacher’s Day and they were asking teachers to put together a 3 minute video telling your ‘world teacher’ story. I wouldn’t have even known about it if not for Ranjith Dedawalige, Head of Internationalism at my school, who [...]
November 21, 2008
School’s out Friday
I loved Star Wars when I was a kid. I will never forget being 13, sitting in a cinema and seeing that Star Cruiser pan across the screen. It was truly an amazing special effect at the time. I was hooked and returned to the cinema on a further two occasions to [...]
November 20, 2008
The Future of Libraries.
John Connell has written an excellent post about Cloud computing and the future of education and the web. He muses;
Since 2002, I have been boring anyone willing to listen to me that this would be the case one day - and the core idea behind Glow in Scotland is based on this fundamental premise - [...]
November 18, 2008
RefSeek - what is the future for subscription databases?
I was finally doing a bit of reading via my Google Reader, when I came across RefSeek, written up by Jane Hart on her very handy blog.
Ref Seek is a website for students and researchers that accesses articles from web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. The idea behind the site is to make academic information easily [...]
November 15, 2008
How do I learn best?
I’m trying to get back into the swing of things now that I’m back from 3 weeks away from my networked existence. I did have a few opportunities to dip into the pool, but they were very quick forays into the shallow end. No deep immersion. Have to jump back in without checking if the water [...]
November 14, 2008
School’s out Friday
Well, I’m finally home from my 18 day tour of China with the students from my school. Another great experience. Not only great because I had the opportunity to immerse myself in another culture, but great because I had the opportunity to see the students in a different light. When you [...]
November 10, 2008
Our Great Wall adventure
Our journey to the Great Wall began with a two and a half hr drive out to Simitai. We checked into our hotel, had lunch and then prepared ourselves for our walk up the very steep mountainous part of the wall that we could see from our lodgings. Even the walk to get on the [...]
