I’ve been thinking more about creativity and learning. As so often happens, a couple of things came to my attention that are related to my ideas from yesterday. First was this TED talk video that came into my iTunes podcast list just today. It is entitled Why play is vital — no matter your age. [...]
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A playful pedagogy
2009/03/12Sometimes plan B works better
2009/02/12I just finished participating in an online presentation with Darren Kuropatwa (audio forthcoming) which almost didn’t happen. The presentation was to my school division’s in-school instructional technology support teachers (iSITS – gotta find a better acronym). Our fearless leader, Donna DesRoches, had arranged for us to gather in Elluminate for the presentation but there were [...]
Good teaching is technology neutral
2008/12/17I’ve just been reading Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s post Letter to my colleagues, and some of the ideas in there made me feel a little uncomfortable. My discomfort stems from some concerns I’ve had recently about some of the comments I’ve read on twitter and in various blogs. Maybe I’m imagining it – I hope I am [...]
I need a SLD that talks to a PLN/PLE
2008/10/21I’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 [...]
Adding binary numbers explained in 2 minutes
2008/10/07I 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.
Video(s) – web search strategies
2008/09/24This is a repost from my work blog:
Here’s a short video from the very clever folks at Common Craft on the topic of web search strategies:
There are many other good search strategies. Here’s a video of Patrick Norton interviewing Google Engineer Matt Cuts, who describes various Google search strategies.
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EdTech Posse Podcast 4.3 – TLt thoughts, and some ideas about edupunk
2008/06/18Dean, Rick and I had a quick chat via Skype earlier this afternoon to talk about TLt and edupunk.
The recording – EdTech Posse 4.3 – TLt and edupunk
Shownotes available at http://edtechposse.wikispaces.com/4.3
The wonder of ducks and books
2008/05/27Jennifer Jones wrote yesterday regarding her daughter’s use of books as a source of information. It reminded me of a story about my daughter at the Calgary Zoo. Stick with me – it is relevant.
(photo by D’Arcy Norman – http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnorman/7823971/
The Calgary Zoo is an amazing place. All the exotic animals are there – elephants, giraffes, [...]
