Learning Blog

Here we go — Just testing out the new version (0.7.1) of Flock. It’s pretty nice and the blogging features are amazing — I’m writing this in a pop up window in the browser — I can save it and then publish to my wordpress blog from the browser. Nice!

Hope everyone is good. [...]

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This is a response to the following thread: Faculty with personal blogs, web pages, MySpace pages, etc
Arvind and Jason and everyone else… thanks for the wonderful exchange.
My internal conflict right now is what personal and what is private. I was reading A Whole New Mind on the way to work this morning, I finished [...]

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A few weeks ago I signed up to be a Webcast Academy intern. Thanks to Jeff Lebow, Dave Cormier, Doug Symington and Konrad Dwojak, I can now run an Interactive Webcast.
Arvind Grover and I did our first Webcast today. We discussed our backgrounds, and what type of topics we would like to cover in [...]

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The following podcast is a recording of a professional development day that I led on Thursday, April 13, 2006. The topic was Blogging, Wikis and Podcasting in the classroom. As Alan November would say, I hope its good enough to criticize.
Download Podcast Here - This is a 20 meg file, so you will [...]

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I’ve been quiet over the past week or so.  The reason is that last Thursday (4/13) I ran a professional development day at my school.  The topic was blogging, wikis, and podcasting — sorry to steal your book name Will:-).  It was the culmination of much of what I have learned by blogging over the [...]

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Two podcasts I listened to this weekend brought up the concept of Googling to find information about someone, especially during job searches. NCQ Talk’s Kris went as far as to say that Googling your name could be your actual resume. At Weblogs, Wikis, and Feeds — Oh My! they discussed that anyone can [...]

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So by linking this Washington Post article to my blog, I get linked from the Washington Post via technorati. The wonder of the blogosphere.
I really enjoy reading Will and Jeff and other educational bloggers. I’d also point you all to EdTechTalk — A wonderful resource for educators who are interested in the [...]

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Dean Shareski podcasted a show about a 1.5 hour blogging seminar for a high school writing course that he did recently. Check it out here. He ended his podcast asking about way to make this type of seminar more effective. I don’t have any good answers, but here is what we have [...]

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