Mar

29

“Shaking it up” on Teacher Tube

March 29, 2007 | 2 Comments

I am thankful that our school and Dept of Education have - so far at least - chosen to keep YouTube and many other social networking sites open in our schools. These are increasingly powerful tools that I hope we can continue to use as learing tools.
Now I see that a new, education-friendly alternative is [...]

Mar

26

Math with Wikis…

March 26, 2007 | 3 Comments

The use of wikis is exploding at the two schools where I work.  One of the most dramatic demonstrations of how wikis can be used is in Matt van Raalte’s Grade 9 Math class. Matt has literally thrown the textbook aside, and has placed all his course materials, from class notes to review and self-correct answer [...]

Mar

26

Flat Prisons?

March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

As David Warlick and I cruised through the Boyce Farmer’s Market on his last morning in Fredericton - a landmark and Saturday morning tradition in downtown Fredericton, we happened upon Andy Scott, our local Member of Parliament (representative in the federal government).  Andy has been the M.P. for Fredericton for over 15 years, and has [...]

Mar

23

L&L21C - day 2

March 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

The energy around the hotel was electric today, maybe even moreso than Day 1.  People were energized by David Warlick’s keynote to open Day 1, and the afternoon of sharing and celebration of some amazing collaborative ideas revved up the engines.
David’s second keynote this morning was just as inspiring. His message centered on the changing [...]

Mar

23

L&L21C - Day Two!

March 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

It is now Day 2…breakfast is over (a fine spread…kudos to the Crowne Plaza)…and we are off and running…
David is starting…he’s speaking on Flat World & Flat Classrooms…he’s introducing the concepts of the flat world, and telling the story of his introduction to the flat world through an interaction with students in Iceland…
- The creative [...]

Mar

23

L&L21C Conference - Day One

March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Day one is in the books - and it was everything that I could have imagined and more. Over 220 teachers from every corner of the province, together in one place for the first time. David Warlick was rivoting, holding their attention for a full hour and a half…nobody budged for fear of [...]

Mar

22

D-Day -1…priceless…

March 22, 2007 | 1 Comment

The first Literacy and Learning in the 21st century conference began this morning, but I wanted to share a bit about yesterday.
I had the pleasure of spending the day with David Warlick yesterday. After having breakfast with some of the great folks at the Department of Education, we wandered over to my school where we [...]

Mar

20

D-Day -2

March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I am posting this from the airport. David Warlick’s flight from Boston is due any minute. I was asked to pick him up and play chauffeur, a task which I gladly jumped at!!
I am excited for this event, not just for myself, but for the 220+ of my colleagues who have been [...]

Mar

20

Crime and Punishment

March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

Spent the day today working with a few Grade 9 teachers - the front line of our province’s move to migrate the 1:1 laptop program from Middle Schools into the high school level. The discussion was pretty free-flowing…and somehow came around to a conversation about the ease of which- usually undersupervised - students wander away [...]

Mar

10

11 Days and counting…

March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Time has crept up on me quite quickly. As I am sitting here multitasking (reading edublogs and watching the Leafs - Sens hockey game with my son) on a Saturday evening, I just realized that it’s only 11 days until our local learning landscape gets rocked.

Our Dept of Education is hosting a two day [...]

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