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October K12 Online LAN Party

Please join us on October 20, 2009from 6:00PM to 8:00PM EDT (10pm GMT)for a second live event of the2009 K12Online ConferenceOn October 20th, the K12Online Conference is hosting a LAN party from 6:00PM...

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K12 Online Echo

I am starting a new show at EdTechTalk, the K12 Online Echo. It will be held twice a month at the EdTechTalk studio. Guests will be drawn from the 2006-2009 conferences and will feature a...

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ISTE 2011

This blog has been dormant for quite some time, but conferences always push me to share what I am learning. It is great to be back at ISTE, to meet people I only know online, having met them through...

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No Excuse

I will be adding my notes for the ISTE Conference - but I've been sidetracked with other things. In the meantimeYou didn't get funded to go to a conference? This is not an excuse for missing PD...

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Terry Fox Run: Interview with Debbie Laurie

 Cross posted from LEARNI just read a blog post which talked about 21st century skills for teachers and students. One of the aspects mentioned was the importance of community involvement. I had the...

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Learning 24/7

 Cross Posted from LEARNAs money gets scarcer, it becomes harder to get to conferences and other professional development events. In the twenty-first century, this is not a reason to miss out on...

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One Day on Earth

As the seven billionth child has been born to this planet I've been thinking a lot about the Earth and the state of people on it. While I sit in a warm and comfortable home, there are many whose lives...

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Howard Gardner at the Global Education Conference

I had the privilege to hear Howard Gardner interviewed by his son, Andrew Gardner, at the Global Education Conference. I did not have to go to the conference; it came to me through Blackboard /...

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Reaching out to the Network

I just watched two keynote presentations from this year's K12 Online Conference: Playing in Public   by George Couros and The World’s Craziest Educational Videos Featuring ds106 by Jim Groom and Tom...

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John Grierson

Living in Montreal, I grew up with films from the National Film Board of Canada. My father had a 16mm projector and my brother rented films for a group of his friends. I got to watch with them. I...

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How are you Reading

cross-posted from http://blogs.learnquebec.ca/I bought an iPad in May and it has definitely changed my reading habits. While I am an avid reader and my house is filled with books, I have started to...

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Kansas City Library: photo by Jonathan MoreauReposted from LEARN blogThere has been a lot written lately about curation in education, specifically digital curation. Here is a definition from...

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A New Adventure

I decided I needed to polish up some skills and be part of a larger community so I joined the etmooc course. One requirement is blogging. Though I have had blogs of one kind or another since 2005, I...

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About Me

This voicethread will help you learn a bit about me.I also have many more interests. I'm an avid photographer, having really started when I got involved in a photo a day in 2009 on Flickr. I also...

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Ripples

I've been thinking about sharing. I participated in last night's etmchat -an interesting challenge as the tweets quickly scroll by. One topic had to do with one's PLN and sharing and I wrotePLN like...

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Getting Organized

I jumped into ETMOOC without much preparation. So now I am going back and thinking things through.  What do I want from this experience?* I am hoping this will push me to try out some new things - to...

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Finally Got the Nerve

As an educator I am always encouraging students, workshop participants to risk. It is through mistakes we learn. When I was an ed tech teacher I had a sign in my lab"An expert is a person who has made...

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Comments Feedback Grades Self-reflection

Single SlicePhoto by Pernilla Rydmark under a CC licenseAs we each carve out our slice of etmooc, I know that I am just nibbling on a slice, not eating the whole pie (nod to Darren Kuropatwa's vlog...

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Walking the Talk

I think one of the reasons I joined etmooc was to force myself to "walk the talk." I give workshops to teachers - one of which is on digital storytelling. I know about the power of story and encourage...

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ETMCHAT on a Wednesday evening

I participated in Wednesday's etmchat. I'm getting better at watching the tweets fly by, stopping to read some, skimming over others. It's a test of brain power. As I get older, I keep reading about...

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Explorations

I really enjoyed the post by Brendan Murphy on rhizomatic learning. He talked about deep learning and how to encourage that both for himself as a learner, but also for his students.I am experimenting...

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Thoughts on Tools

I've been thinking about the challenge of using a variety of tools to tell the same story and I'm not sure if that is the best approach. It does help you understand what each tool does, but not every...

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Week One Learning Creative Learning

I'm really challenging myself being in two multi-user courses at the same time. But there are not marks. I'm not really answerable to anyone but myself and I will get out of each what I can. The good...

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A story with POP!

It has been fun to experiment with digital storytelling. I had fun with popcornA little story to share. But what did I learn - (thinking about digital literacy after today's talk by Doug Belshaw).Be...

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Sunshine Award Post

Audrey McLaren tagged me (nominated me) to write a Sunshine Award Post. I have not been blogging here lately - more in other places - but this seemed the best place to answer. Here are the steps we're...

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