Entries Tagged as 'Spreading the Word'

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

The Urgency of Digital Ethics

Thanks to John Pederson for pointing me to this video. It paints a powerful picture of just what forms cyberbullying can take and the importance of addressing it in our families and our schools.

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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Excuses, Excuses

Ewan McIntosh posted a link to a great list of The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating to his Del.icio.us account today. A few particularly relevant ones to those of us in education (some with commentary):

I don’t have the time.
I’ll be punished if I fail. (Education translation: If my kids fail I’ll be punished.)
My [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Reflections on A Year of Change

The school year will be drawing to a close on Thursday. As we meet as an Instructional Technology team tomorrow, I feel it is important to evaluate where we have been, where we are now, and where we hope to go in the future. The year began with high expectations for teacher learning, student learning, [...]

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Chance to Share with a Global Audience!

The K12 Online Conference 2008 has released its call for participation. This is a great event, particularly in that it opens the door to learning about Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom to a global audience, and it allows access to some incredible educators from the comfort of a participant’s office chair. Details are below.
We [...]

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Reality Slap

Sitting in a meeting at a north Texas school district today, and this is a list of some of the sites with blocked access that I encountered in a quick check:

Bloglines
Gmail
Twitter
Ning
Blogger
Wikispaces
PBWiki
WetPaint
YouTube
Flickr
Photobucket
Picnik
Scrapblog
Jott
Fleck
Trailfire
Skype
Flock
Slideshare
Polldaddy
Zamzar
Google Documents

Some categories that the offending sites fall into include messaging, personal pages, entertainment/recreation/hobbies, instant messaging, web phone, dating/social (for Flock?), shareware/freeware, and, my [...]

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Into the Great Unknown

I just discovered this pic through StumbleUpon, a tool that is very useful and very addicting, and thought it was worth sharing. I’m not sure of the source, although the link is from a Ning site.

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