Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom
Through all the intellectual storms of history, teaching has remained, above all, a performance art that unfolds in real time.I’ve always thought that the most important difference between me and a textbook is that I am a better storyteller! I’m only half-joking when I say this.
I’ve been spending so much time enjoying some of the new voices in the ed-tech blogosphere that I haven’t been doing a whole lot of blogging myself lately (although another car-podcast is definitely in the works). It seems like spring is bringing a fresh new set of voices online, and my bloglines account is getting [...]
It has been over a month since my last podcast so it is well past time for another stigmergicweb podcast. You can find it at http://www.omegageek.net/podcasts/stigwebpdcst_2005-04-04.mp3.
Show notes (such as they are):
This show was recorded earlier this evening on my spanking new iRiver 795 in my car and in my computer lab at [...]
Last week, I had the chance to have an actual vacation from work/courses/projects – the first time in a long time this happened. I was actually hoping to get a bit of work done on a couple of different things (liking getting ahead of the game for preparation for my classes), but the internet connection [...]
Your thoughtful responses
Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.

