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Archive for October, 2007

When we fail students

Posted in education, learning, teaching on October 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Recently on twitter Konrad Glogowski posted this – When kids don’t do well we often think of what they must do to conform … not of what we’re not doing for them. Students are blamed for not wanting to learn, not caring about school, being lazy, these are the reasons they are not successful. I [...]

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Social Software 07 Great Success

Posted in collaboration, professional development, skype, socialsoftware07, web2.0 on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday evening was the final night of the Social Software for the Classroom which Darren Draper and I facilitated together. I want to thank all who participated, it was a wonderful experience for me and I learned a great deal from everyone, especially Darren. We used tools new to all of us, tried a new [...]

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New tools passed along in rapid fire

Posted in Web 2.0 classroom tools, learning, school2.0, twitter, web2.0 on October 15, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Recently there has been a series of rapid fire introductions to new tools ustream.tv,
operator 11, google presentations all propelled to the forefront through the invisible connections of twitter and other social networking sites many are connected to as part of their learning communities. I have to say at times I feel overwhelmed with all of [...]

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