Open Monologue
Just because I'm making it up as I go along doesn't mean I don't know what I'm doing

Archive for December, 2009

Privacy or anonymity

2009/12/18

I’ve been ruminating on the ideas of privacy and anonymity a little bit over the past couple of days, especially privacy of student information in schools. For some people, guarding students privacy is considered to be best achieved by keeping all information about students, or as much as possible, completely away from the web. I [...]

Crowdsourcing my conference choice

2009/12/17

I’m lucky to have been provided significant funding by my school division to attend an educational technology conference sometime between now and the end of August. This is provided as an opportunity to have teachers from the school division to attend conferences that are farther away than we would normally be able to go to, [...]

Integrating teaching into technology

2009/12/15

I’ve been reading Tony Bates’ blog post 5 higher ed trends not to watch in 2010, his reaction to 5 higher ed tech trends to watch in 2010 at Campus Technology.  A couple of his observations has provoked a good amount of reflection on my part. A lot of my ideas are still bouncing around and [...]