Just checking stats for the blog, and I saw that I had 49 posts (and this would be # 50) and 144 tags (and I’m adding #145 and # 146). Apparently I need to tighten up my tagging schema a bit. Or outsource to a librarian. This is a good example why I would be a very poor librarian. My desk at school is not dissimilar to by blog, vis a vis organization and classification.

I’m a big supporter of the personalized learning network/environment as a toolset for self directed learning. I have found mine immensely helpful in my professional and personal learning. I like the diagram that Scott Leslie has put together to describe his (and mine) PLE. I’d like to help my students develop the same sort of toolset for themselves. As a teacher, I want to be able to help my students grow their PLE in age/grade appropriate ways. Maybe we should even explicitly put that as a learning objective in the K12 curriculum. What I need as a teacher is a way to monitor and/or participate in an appropriate way. I’d like to be able to watch as students grow their PLE and make my presence explicit when I need to. But I don’t want to look through a dozen different … Continue reading »

Look – rounded corners: Don’t you just want to lick that beautiful Web 2.0 eye candy! More about the new iGoogle at Google Operating System and from Google

I put this together for my online Computer Science 20 class. I’m going to be adding more screencasts/powerpoint-casts to the course during this school year. Watch here for more in the future.

2 in the morning seems to be my prime time for tweaking the look of the blog. I wish that my brain would wind down earlier in the evening (like around midnight) so I could get a decent amount of sleep! The current theme is called Google Chrome and it is based on the look of Google’s new browser.

Dang – the asides are showing up in my main RSS feed, which is not what I want. I’d like the asides to be excluded from the main feed but have their own dedicated feed. I think that is a problem that will have to wait.

So I’ve been playing around with AsidePress as a way to publish aside posts and I think that it’s finally working. Yay! I’ve just looked at the clock and I see that it’s nearly 2 a.m. Boo! Why do I do this to myself?