This site is an archive of the thoughts, writing and discussions of Ontario Blogs participants during the 2006-07 school year.
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Clarence Fisher’s “Remote Access” post today includes a link to the first in a series of essays where he plans to “synthesize, crystallize, and distill some of the lessons (he’s) learned around 2.0 classrooms.” Considering his remarkable experience, I’ll be reading these essays carefully as they come out.
This first one is called “Audience and […]
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Yesterday Alan Levine’s CogDogBlog pointed readers toward an extraordinary collaborative effort we can watch unfold in the coming months.
Five secondary school teachers from the U.S., Austria, Bangladesh, China, and Australia are embarking on a second Flat Classroom project. Levine reports that students will be researching and writing about “the future of education, technology, and society […]
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Today on Konrad Glogowski’s Blog of Proximal Development there’s a post called ”Learning to Listen.”
In it, Konrad describes how using blogs in his classroom has changed his approach to teaching a novel study. For me, the interesting part is hearing about his struggle to remain true to what he has learned about creating conditions […]
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This morning I came across a post on the techlearning blog about someone learning virtually from the experiences of those presenting at and attending “workshops literally half a world away.”
The post, called “Flat world 1:1 learning,” contains links to thought-provoking blogs describing:
the importance of teachers using tools like blogs and wikis for themselves for […]
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I thought you might be interested in this article, which was on the CBC yesterday.
Entitled “Multimedia meets multi-literacy age,” it features two of my favourite edubloggers, Clarence Fisher and Darren Kuropatwa. They are described as “teachers who started as active bloggers with the goal of connecting with educators worldwide. Now they’ve taken what they know to the classroom, […]
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Julie Lindsay, a teacher at an international school in Bangladesh, has a post on her E-Learning Blog called “A Day in the Life of a Global, Connected Educator.”
I find it quite interesting and inspiring to hear how her use of technology affects her pedagogy, and the post has numerous links to other educators doing noteworthy things […]
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Ewan McIntosh at http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/ wrote today about a collaboration between primary classes in Ireland and Malta.
At Once Upon a Blog, the students, ages six to eight, share ideas in the form of blog posts, podcasts and artwork. There’s also a special teachers’ corner for comments and discussion.
I was also interested to see the comment, […]
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Wesley Fryer of Moving at the Speed of Creativity has posted information about twenty webcasts that are available from the Florida Educational Technology Conference, which was held recently.
I haven’t seen them yet for the same old reasons, but there are two in particular his friends have recommended:
- Promoting 21st Century Skills by Ken Kay, […]
Thanks to the post by Bud Hunt on the Bud the Teacher blog today, I found myself on the Learning is Messy Blog, Nevada grade 4 teacher, Brian Crosby’s blog.
You have to watch the video, If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, What Is A Video Worth?, produced by his fourth grade students.
(I had […]