A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2012

'Change in education seems to be as illusive as the Loch Ness Monster. Everyone seems to be talking about it, but little action leading to meaningful results seems to be the mainstay in many schools. Through my work over the years as a teacher, educational administrator, and learner through I have identified common roadblocks to the change process. If identified and addressed appropriately these roadblocks can be overcome.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 1, 2012

'I''ve recently returned from a trip out to San Diego for #ISTE12. While there you could definitely sense several themes with the participants, sessions, and vendors. STEM was one. iPad and other Tablet cases, charging stations and protection plans was another. But overall the biggest topic that people wanted to talk about was Flipping the classroom.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 2, 2012

'181 Google Tricks that will save you time in School - updated is an article that has, as it''s title suggests, some great tricks for using different Google apps and resources in education. The tips include improving your search and finding what you need, using Google Scholar, iGoogle , Google Groups , Google+ , Google Docs , Gmail, Google Calendar , Chrome and much more.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 6, 2012

For weeks, I have been grappling with the "categories of knowledge" I developed in my knowledge grid. During my defense, my adviser pushed me to define what these categories were. Needless to say, my inability to define what exactly these "categories" were and what they represented made me revisit and revise my dissertation. It took a while, but I finally realized that "category of knowledge" did not really reflect the concept I was trying to express.

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JULY 3, 2012

'What had the most impact on me this past week, and what memories will be most prominent from this week? What new goals will I set as a result of this week? Here they are, not in any particular order. Linda Yollis & Kathleen Morris 1. Educational Blogging: Flattening Classroom Walls by Linda Yollis and Kathleen Morris I am always inspired and in awe of these two women.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 3, 2012

'So if you are seeing this post you might be wondering where I am. Or maybe not. But the story is still interesting none the less. Each year I go on vacation. And starting 3 years ago when I go on vacation, I go on vacation. I don''t take any technology with me. Nothing that will connect me with the outside world for 7 days. No computer. No Kindle. No phone.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 1, 2012

I recently gave a keynote at the eLearning 2.0 conference held at Brunel University, in West London. The presentation was a reworked version of one I gave earlier in the year in Tallinn, Estonia. In Learning in a Digital Age: The Myth and the Reality, I present a number of widespread beliefs about elearning, and challenge the provenance, reasoning and application of these theories.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 3, 2012

'Join me tonight, Tuesday, July 3rd, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with David Preston, who teaches high school in California, and a group of his students. This year David and his students engaged online thought leaders and used open source principles and tools to create: a microfinance operation a hackspace a venture incubator an online art dealership a P2P digital consulting practice a game lab an international digital research partnership an alumni/friends community

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 5, 2012

Now that I have completed my dissertation, there are some aspects of the research process I want to write about. One topic is related to questions I received at my defense and issues that have been brought up on #phdchat. One of the first issues was to use a software like NVIVO or come up with my own process/technology. In the end, after downloading NVIVO and trying it out, I felt that it was too much work for the benefit.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 2, 2012

'Discovery Education has a lot of great resources for educators, many free (over 30). They also have fee-based services such as DE Streaming with thousands of videos, audio files, images, lesson plans, and much more. The Discovery Education Science Techbook is more than a digital textbook. "It’s a different way of thinking. Thinking outside the box, perhaps.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 5, 2012

A man checked into a hotel for the first time in his life, and went up to his room. Five minutes later he called the reception desk and said: "You've given me a room with no exit. How do I leave?" The desk clerk said, "Sir, that's absurd. Have you looked for the door?" The man said, "Well, there's one door that leads to the bathroom. There's a second door that goes into the closet.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 4, 2012

'Join me Thursday, July 5th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Marcia Conner, co-author of The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media. While her book is written for and marketed to the business world, Marcia''s background and interest in education and learning will allow us to talk in depth about building "learning cultures" and "communities of learners," and to draw all kinds of great connections--from "making learning dramati

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 2, 2012

I know I haven't been posting much the last few months (well, really not at all). Two things have happened in the last couple of days. First, my final revisions were accepted on Friday, so now I am confident that I will be receiving my Ph.d in August. The second thing is, now that I have time to post, my daughter will have my computer for the next 5 weeks so many of the ideas I had for posting are not nearby!

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 5, 2012

'One of my fav members of my PLN on Twitter is Josh Stumpenhorst - this morning he posted this Tweet about an article on Social Media Today titled QR codes – Don’t Believe the Hype which got my blood boiling because it''s flawed logic - especially for educators! Josh Stumpenhorst ? @ stumpteacher QR codes – don’t believe the hype [link] interesting Which, of course, leads to great Tweets & discussions.

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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JUNE 30, 2012

In 1980, sociologist Alvin Toffler described a third wave of civilisation, the first two 'waves' of the agricultural, and the industrial civilisations would be swept aside by a greater, technological wave. Describing the disruptive and transformational impact of this technological wave, Toffler wrote: "The emergent civilisation writes a new code of behaviour for us and carries us beyond standardisation, synchronisation and centralisation, beyond the concentration of energy, money and power.

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