Join the Conversation

I will be giving a presentation this coming Saturday, February 18th from 10-11am Hong Kong time (which will be 6pm Friday on the west coast and 9pm Friday on the east coast in North America) at the 21st Century Learning Conference Hong Kong. Use this website if you...

What are we Championing?

When I was a high school senior I remember our school participated in a program to bring video equipement into our classrooms. It was called Channel One. The program was explained to us as away for our school to receive free TV’s and VCR’s to be used in...

Twitter Lists Explained & Newbie Twitter Prezi

Using lists on Twitter can be very useful if not for any other reason that this: Note: you don’t need to follow another user to add them to a list; if you want to read a user’s Tweets but not see their messages in your main timeline every day, lists allow...

What’s a # mean on Twitter and what is a Twitter “Chat”?

I’ve had people ask me how I can have a “conversation” on Twitter when I have all these tweets flying through my timeline. The short answer is a “#” which is called a hashtag. If you are new to Twitter one of the most valuable things to...

Same Battle (Distractions)… New Frontier (Digital)

Before you decide to “plug in” your classroom by introducing connected technology (laptops, netbooks, iPads, iPods, tablets etc) you’ll need to think some thing through and possibly adjust how you manage your classroom. Just how you adjust may depend...