How do students choose their sources? After finishing the video I created about ”authority of sources” I have come to the conclusion one thing I’d like to know more about is how students make those choices, so I can include their thoughts in the video as well. So I’ve been talking to students when they’ve been [...]
Entries from September 12, 2007
Young and hungry
September 11, 2007 · No Comments · Design
Side by side in Business Week this week: “Young and Hungry” article about Indian companies and young Indians “desperate to improve their lives.” Facing that, an ad for steel company Arcelor Mittal, entitled “Boldness Changes Everything.” Thinking about what it would be like if all our students were “young and hungry” about reading and learning, [...]
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Coming attractions–K12 online conference
September 10, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
The K12 Online Conference is gearing up for October. If you haven’t participated in this in the past, it is a two week “online” conference, which you attend by viewing presentations online. There are also live events, like a 24 hour closing Skypecast. And to whet your appetite for what the conference is like, teaser [...]
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Informed writing
September 9, 2007 · 3 Comments · Research
Since participating in dy/dan’s “Four Slide Contest” earlier this summer, I’ve been thinking alot about design. This little movie about authority of sources is one I’ve been tinkering with for a couple of weeks, hoping to jazz up the concept a little. I am hoping to add student interviews into the movie later in the year. Thanks to [...]
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Idealism versus reality
September 6, 2007 · 1 Comment · Change
For many of us, summer is a time of learning and preparing for the new school year. Like our students, we start the new year fresh and full of optimistic ideas, for trying new teaching strategies or introducing new web tools or technology or changing our program. What happens when that optimism bumps into reality? [...]
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Will this be THE device?
September 5, 2007 · 1 Comment · Research, Tools
When I first saw the iPhone, I was so excited, because I started thinking that this will be the device(or one close to it) that will be the portable device for our students for classroom use. Today’s release of some new Apple products, including the iPod Touch (basically an iPhone without the phone part, or [...]
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Getting into the game
September 3, 2007 · 1 Comment · Tools, Web 2.0
Microsoft announced their release next week of a new suite of software services, meant to compete with web software like Google Docs, etc. offer. If I am understanding it correctly, some tools will be free(like a photo sharing tool which sounds similar to Picasa from Google), and some will be ones that Microsoft charges for. [...]
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