Multi-faceted Refractions

On Monday morning, the K12 Online conference released its pre-conference keynote “presentation“. This year, David Warlick presented Inventing New Boundaries. Here are my take aways from this presentation.
1. David changed the metaphor from the railway to the airport
This is an apt switch, since teachers need to switch their role in the classroom from that of [...]

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Like many of you on Monday morning, I opened up my web browser and pointed it two the K12 Online Conference Blog so that I could download the Pre-Conference Keynote by David Warlick.
One of the changes in this year’s conference, which Wes Fryer notes in his blog post, Inventing New Boundaries, is the presence of [...]

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The wonderful Help Desk crew for the k12 Online Conference are helping individuals who cannot access content because of firewall restrictions.
Take a look at their explanation on how to accomplish this (K12OnlineHelpDesk – Getting Past Blocked Content).
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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 rhymes with [...]

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