To Blog List

I have tons of things to blog about, but not enough time.
Here’s the list:

How I set up this blog? Notes on Wordpress, and the template info I have added.
School leadership - from Books like Good to Great, Now Here are your Strengths, etc.
Learning and teaching philosophy — How schools are working now and should work. [...]

Tablets vs. Smartboards

I’m using a IBM X41 tablet right now — I really like it, but tend to use the keyboard more than the writing functions. What I like best about this guy is the fingerprint logon — a wonderful security feature! I have also installed 22 smartboards at my school, so I have a bit [...]

School in other Countries

Arvind Grover, another New York City Technologies is visiting his family in India and posted the following about preschool’s in India:
Preschools are somewhat of a new phenomena in India, and it seems like they are starting out on a great foot. In India, there are government schools and public schools—government schools are like U.S. public [...]

Sociology and the Web

Interesting piece from Mark Smith from Microsoft Research on Catalyzing Collective Action on the Net.
The communities that are growing up on the web are amazing — the blogosphere being just one of many. Hopefully they can be positive, learning communities.

On Being Radical…

Stephen Downes from the National Research Council Canada, said the following during his talk, “On Being Radical”:

(Goals of Education): Diversity, Many Objectives, Many Goals, Many Frames of Mind, Many opinions, Many beliefs. Instead of trying to make all of us one, it is a celebration of our diversity and the connections between individuals [...]

Testing Video Feeds

Sam’s Presentation
So this works now, but I just had to link it. Embedding using the object tag works in IE, but really messes things up in Firefox. I’m going to research trying to use javascript to do a browser detect or see if firefox can embed video — this would work for images [...]

Experimenting with Video Conferencing

Yesterday, during the final presentations for my web design class, we video conferenced a professional web designer from New Hampshire into the class. This was an interesting first step to making the world a smaller place for my students. We used webex to run the video and Skyped the audio. It worked [...]

ISED Post

From a ISED-L post:
We’re just beginning to wrestle with this issue. About 64 students at
Wilbraham have pages on MySpace.
I’m thinking that the easiest way to reduce student use of such spaces is
for our faculty to begin putting up pages noting the books we like to
read, the operas we like to listen to etc. The [...]

Educational Leadership - December 05 January 06

I’m still reading it but there are some great articles in this month’s issue of Educational Leadership: Learning in the Digital Age from ASCD.
Mark Pensky’s article on Listening to the Natives (He coined the term Digital Natives to describe students today) is a compelling argument to expose students to learning in their own context. [...]

What Blogging is About — Community

In the Blog of Proximal Development Konrad Glogowski discusses blogging and how it influences his courses. He speaks about the way his students internalize their writing in this post. His description shows the power of publishing in a public forum.
I’m experiment with this. My web design class will be presenting [...]

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