I have been tagged by Lani Ritter-Hall for the K12 Online Conference Blog Meme. What is a blog meme? The Daily Meme provides a definition which accurately describes my understanding of the concept: People often ask, “What is a Meme?” so here’s a more than a little information on that. I pronounce it so it’s [...]
Entries from September 27th, 2007
I have been tagged – K12 Online Conference Meme
September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · k12online07
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I Have Started a New Blog
September 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning
One of the items that I was beginning to struggle with on this blog was that of voice and audience. I wanted to do a number of different posts, talking about new tools and projects that I find, talking about projects that I am assisting with, and discussions about the role of “embedding” technology (thanks [...]
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Practicing What I Preach – A Collaborative Learning Experience
September 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · teaching and learning
Or, How 140 Characters Enhanced my Tuesday. 140 Characters. My average sentence length, because I am usually wordy, runs at about 120 characters. Long enough to convey a message, but without a great amount of depth. (For those of you counting, the first three sentences contained 171 characters.) On Tuesday, in the course of 10 [...]
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Google Announces New Application – Presentation
September 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Today, Google released a new collaborative tool , Google Presentation, to round out its suite of products. During our Lower School and Middle School opening Faculty Meetings, I showed teachers Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets which can be used by students as substitutes for Microsoft Word and Excel. These are tools that would allow students [...]
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Learning 2.0 Conference – Collaboration Ideas
September 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment · teaching and learning
As I noted earlier this week, I spent a part of my weekend following the thoughts and ideas being shared at the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai. Since then, several of the participants have taken the time to reflect and share their ideas and thoughts via their blog posts and podcasts of the sessions. This [...]
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