Put others to work for you

Nov 13

Social bookmarking has been around for a while. I used ikeepbookmarks for years but there was little sharing. Furl was my first real use of social bookmarking. I used it pretty faithfully but didn’t do much sharing or looking. I’ve recently switched over to delicious and am pretty pumped. I suppose I could have done many of the things that excites me...

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Are you your student’s pet?

Nov 13

These are the future, my friends. They’re here and living among us. They’re not very interested in us, and I’m not sure I blame them. The best we can hope for is that one day they may keep us as pets. This article via David Warlick via Ewan is dealing more with the irrelevance of today’s newspapers but substitute the word newspaper for school...

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Bringing Social Networks to Life

Nov 12

Ewan posted this and it provides a powerful message. I’d never heard of Bebo before but it would seem to fit into the myspace/social network sites of the internet. The video tries to look at what really happens in a social network. The good and bad are portrayed here. I think it really opens ups some great opportunities to discuss the implications of social...

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Conversations on Learning

Nov 08

Conversations on Learning

I’ve set up a new weblog for our Curriculum Consultants and Senior Administration. With the help of Miguel and Larry Stegall, I’ve set up the blog using b2evolution. Even in our early stages, there are a couple of thought provoking entries. Most are from our curriculum team but hope our senior admin get on board soon. Pop in and have a peek around and...

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Will Richardson has a bad day

Nov 06

Will Richardson has a bad day

Will Richardson is usually is a pretty upbeat guy. But this post might make you think otherwise. He’s a bit frustrated as we all are at times. It may have been a bad day. The Monday morning quarterback in me would guess it had something to do with the encounter with a teacher he mentions later in the post. Whatever the reason, he makes some great points: there...

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