Taking Care of Ourselves

From Practical Theory:
So here’s my question to you: What’s your best “Get Away From Our Schools” technique?
I’m on a three week paternity leave right now. On my first two leaves (Elly is 5 and Evan is 2.5) I didn’t have the blogosphere to distract me. I feel that it is harder to get away now [...]

Motomail

My cousin is a Marine in Iraq on his second tour. There is a service called motomail that is really cool. You write your letters and submit them electronically through their web site. Then someone prints the letter in Iraq and hand delivers it to my cousin. Great for keeping [...]

Thoughts from EdTechBrainStorm 27

Last Thursday I participated in EdTechBrainstorm at EdTechTalk.com. It was a lot of fun to participate in this Skype conference and add to the conversation. This is a neat format where they stream audio and have a chat room to include folks who are just listening. They also podcast their shows [...]

The New Story — Attempt #1

So I’m home on paternity leave with my four month old daughter for three weeks. We’re having a good time playing, eating and napping. One of my addictions (other than coffee) is listening to WNYC. As I listen, I have been thinking a lot about David Warlick concept of the new story [...]

Telling Stories

In order to really move our schools along into the 21st Century, we have to tell amazingly compelling stories of why the change from faculty to student centered education is so critical. There have been some amazing posts and podcasts on this subject recently. Here are some links:
Speed of Creativity - Wesley Fryer
2 Cents - [...]

History and its Usefullness

I just started reading “An End To Suffering” by Pankaj Mishra. I’ve always been interested in Buddism and this book follows “the Budda’s life and his influence throught history.”
The opening quote of the book struck me and I just want to share it.
We need history, certainly, but we need it for reasons different from [...]

Clean Slate

So I am part of our scheduling committee. We have so many courses and conflicts and we try to do it all for everyone. We do good job creating a high quality educating for students, but there is so much pressure on kids to perform in multiple classes. Maybe too much pressure [...]

del.icio.us for the past two weeks

Commented Links to Papers and Articles - Blog EFL/ESL Wiki
(tags: blogging research)
Blackboard vs. Moodle
(tags: blackboard online-learning elearning moodle)
Stuart Highlights - a photoset on Flickr
(tags: flickr emotion birth death)
NPR : Student Gladly Shares Life Details on the Web
(tags: blogging professional-development npr) [...]

Jeff Mao on C-Span

Check out Jeff Mao testifying before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on C-Span (His testamony begins around minute 14). His report is available here. Jeff provides some interesting charts at the end of the reports on data from the Maine 1 to 1 program.

Learning Migration?

I’ve been learning a lot about online life and the ins and outs of online communication lately, and I have found an interesting webcast called EdTechTalk.com. They broadcast almost daily and have an radio interview/conversation format using a skype conference and a text chat room that allows a background conversation.
The hosts of EdTechTalk are [...]

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