Today was great. My day started out with my computer “ringing” me because I was being invited to join a Skypecast workshop that Clay Burrell was conducting from Seoul. Pretty neat way to be woken up! (I must be turning into a total geek ) Then at school today, I assisted our principal in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Future students'
Off to a good start
August 16th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Change, Future students, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
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It’s all in the discussion
August 15th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Future students, Web 2.0
In a workshop at our campus last year, Will Richardson rightfully(and insightfully) pointed out that one of the most fascinating aspects of Wikipedia lies in the discussion tab. It’s not just that wikis allow us to create websites where we can add links easily, but that they have a “comments” or discussion area, where the joint creators of [...]
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Removing the barriers
July 24th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Future students, Tools, Web 2.0
One ”techie” tool that has got me jazzed this summer is Skype. If you haven’t used Skype, it allows you to “phone” or “conference call” others from your computer to anyone anywhere; it also has a chat room feature which you can use along with the conference call or separately. Some great features include the ability [...]
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Seeking first to understand
July 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Change, Future students
My kids roll their eyes in mock dismay at the mere mention of Stephen Covey, but one of his principles which I cite the most is to “Seek first to understand,” rather than to be understood. This principle is floating through my head this morning as I read through a stream of blog posts about including student voices more in [...]
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Unbowed
April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Book recommendations, Future students
Happy Earth Day! Wangari Maathai, who instituted one of my favorite “green” projects, the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, has a new book, Unbowed, about her experiences as a tree planting project turned into a democratic movement in her country. I first learned about her efforts from the film, Nobelity Project, which is the inspiration of Austin author Turk Pipkin [...]
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One small thing
April 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Future students
Doug Johnson at the Blue Skunk blog has re-posted a heartfelt commentary that he wrote after a devastating school shooting in Minnesota two years ago. In “The Need for Community” he comments: “In our efforts to improve our schools and reduce school expenditures, extra-curricular activities are often first on the chopping block. Politicians and taxpayers see music, [...]
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Bringing the “outside” in
March 15th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students
What am I doing writing about the SXSW Interactive, Film, and Music Festival on a blog about libraries and education? (Well, first off, because we won FREE wristbands to attend the SXSW music festival–thanks KGSR!) But also, as I’ve been using the SXSW website and reading articles about it, it’s fascinating to see how technology is [...]
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Want to give your two cents worth?
March 13th, 2007 · No Comments · Future students, Will Richardson
Will Richardson has been struggling quite a bit lately about how to bring about changes in education that better reflect the sort of connected world that our students are growing up in. Then yesterday, he got an email from Senator Lamarr Alexander’s office asking him (as a blogger) to join a conference call today about the America [...]
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We’re back…
March 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Site visits
We have returned from our site visits tonight and there is a lot to absorb! I was reading a new book, Wikinomics, on the plane, which is about how the new collaborative and connective nature of the web is changing our culture. To me, that is what the site visits were all about. We’ve made connections with all [...]
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Saying “yes”
February 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Teacher Learner, Will Richardson
Will Richardson talked about friction points caused by new technologies and the rapid pace of change. When I heard Lawrence Lessig talk at U.T. about copyright, he was talking about how innovators created this new system of copyright because the law wasn’t changing fast enough to meet the web 2.0 environment. As I sat there [...]
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