Twitter in the Kindergarten Classroom
Teaching at a small somewhat remote school can pose some interesting challenges. One of those challenges is bringing variety into our classroom. There are only so many ways to mix up grouping a class of 6 students. Even though my students are amazing, sometimes they...
The See Through Shades of the Digital Window
Is there any privacy online? I think there is some, but not much. I actually think there is less than most people think. A quote from the very controversial Julian Assange: "Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented," he...
Digital footprints in the sand… or is that concrete?
My digital footprint has been something that I have been aware ever since I started blogging and using sites such as Facebook. For years I had been very reluctant to post any personal information online including just my name. I wasn't super paranoid but I just...
Why Blog
When my wife and I first moved to Cambodia in 2005 we decided to start a blog. Mainly it was a way for us to let a bunch of people back home know what we were up to. Although our blog wasn't read by a bunch of people it was much easier for us to create a post and add...
Understanding By Design
For our final project we have to create a Understanding by Design or UbD until plan. Here is the one that I have created for my kindergarten class: I can't seem to figure out how to make this document window bigger. Bear with my while I try to figure that out and in...
1:1
As I mentioned in an earlier post I attended Jeff Utecht's session on 1:1 schools. It was a very engaging and informative session. I will briefly discuss what I took away from the session here. Before I begin I'd like to add that Jeff spoke for about the first 20% of...
In+Out=PLN
My current school is in the planning stages of going 1:1 so I along with the technology director for my school I attended Jeff Utecht's Earcos session focused on school going 1:1. We were looking to glean some insight into what makes a 1:1 school successful. Although...
Knowledge and Application
As I dusted off the old Macbook and packed for the Coetail@Earcos pre-conference I was a little apprehensive. I knew little about the two people who were going to be guiding us through the next year as we embarked on a journey through the digital domain. I had been...
Going Green
This EARCOS provided some top notch speakers but my personal favorite was Geoff Green. Geoff is an arctic explorer and educator. He was an inspiring person in many ways. He believes passionately in what he's doing and it shows. Geoff started an organization called...