Amazed is how I would describe how I felt at today’s author talk. I kept thinking, the response from the audience is more like what you would expect for a rock star or a popular comedian. John Green, author of YA books such as Looking for Alaska and Paper towns, bounded into the Village Roadshow Theatrette [...]
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Tweeting from space – NASA on Twitter
Posted in 21st century learning, Remarkable, Web 2.0, learning, technology, tagged @Astro_Mike, internationalplp21, journal, Mike Massimino, NASA, space, tweets, Twitter, Web 2.0 on May 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some time ago, when talking about Twitter, I mentioned an astronaut using Twitter to share his journey to space – @Astro_mike, or Mike Massimino, a NASA astronaut, mission specialist for STS-125. You can see Mike along with the rest of the team on the NASA website. Receiving real-time tweets as he prepared for launch, [...]
Hitler freaks out over Comic Sans
Posted in humour, media, tagged comic sans, font, Hitler, humour, Vista, youtube on May 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
With the recent public antipathy towards the font Comic Sans, I thought I’d share this video which made me laugh
If you’re still in the mood for a laugh, you may want to check out Hitler has Vista problems.
Teach the child
Posted in Education, learning, teaching, tagged assessment, inspiration, internationalplp21, kids, learning, rubrics, students, teaching, wonderment on May 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Today I read Steve Shann’s recent blog post which I won’t try and fail to summarise. I welcomed the introspective, quiet depth of his post. After my recent focus on the promotion of technology – always as a way to enhance learning and teaching – Steve’s anecdotal reflection led me back to the business of [...]
Power of the network
Posted in 21st century learning, Web 2.0, blogging, debate, learning, network literacy, networking, teachers, teaching, technology, writing, tagged 21st century learning, change, discussion, fear, Web 2.0, Will Richardson, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, internationalplp21, networks, network literacy, journey on May 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The last couple of days have been very interesting. I’d like to share what I have learned since I shared on this blog a discussion about favouring an external blog to an internal one.
Above all, I learned that I could depend on the people in my network. Who are these people? Some of them I’ve [...]
School library blog – stay in or go out?
Posted in 21st century learning, Web 2.0, blogging, debate, learning, network literacy, teaching, technology, tagged blogs, fiction, online, reviews, school, technology, Web 2.0, internationalplp21, policy, mission statement on May 25, 2009 | 44 Comments »
Recently I’ve moved my school library book review blog from an internal one within the school intranet (Sharepoint) to an external WordPress one. Just today I received an email from our Computer Systems Manager:
Do you realise that by using the WordPress site, you are denying most of our students easy access to your work. Sure, [...]
16 habits of highly creative people
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, creativity, teaching, tagged business, creativity, Education, internationalplp21, Ken Robinson, Shalu Wasu, teaching, work on May 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Most people would deny being creative. Have you noticed that? People who display obvious creativity, but who say, ‘Who me? I’m not creative!’ It’s the strange fallacy that in order to be creative you have to be good at drawing or play an instrument like a prodigy.
Ken Robinson talks about creativity. I’ve written previously about his TED talk [...]
Creative alphabets
Posted in art, tagged alphabet, art, creativity on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There are many things mulling about in my mind, none of them formed.
To intersperse the hiatus with some activity, keeping in mind that variety is the spice of life, I’d like to share a blog post about ‘Creativity with alphabets’ which I found on Crooked Brains. Who would have thought there could be so many [...]
Learning from a phone?
Posted in 21st century learning, Web 2.0, networking, teaching, technology, tagged Educate, iPhone, iTouch on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One of The Simpsons episodes shows us futuristic learning that can go wrong.
Judy O’Connell gives us a more realistic idea of how technology can change teaching in her blog when she talks about the soon-to-be-released Educate: The Ultimate iPhone and iTouch App for Teachers.
Educate is an iPhone/iTouch application designed to support teaching professionals [...]
Learning is a waste of time?
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, debate, learning, research, teachers, teaching, tagged conversation, enquiry, evaluation, learning, passion, reflection, teachers, work on May 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A day of conversations.
Good to record these and then reflect and analyse.
Firstly, a conversation with a Year 7 student who was ‘unable’ to do any work during English class because his laptop wasn’t working (note: he managed to remain undetected for most of the writing session before we realised, and then his visit to the computer [...]
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