This is a presentation I gave on Feb. 20th at our annual Teachers’ Convention. Normally a 2 day convention but shortened to one this year, this session was the last session in the day right before a 3 day break. With that in mind, I decided not to offer anything too taxing on the brain. So 43 Things is stolen from the website of the same name but simply is a...

I called this podcast Naked Conversations because much of the content centered around the book by Scoble and Israel. It was a talk given to various members of Western provincial teachers’ associations. These are the folks who work with large provincial teachers’ associations on things like teacher contracts, grievances, rehabilitation, teacher advocacy,...

I love NFL Films. They can make the most boring, insignificant game seem like an epic battle. With great cinematography, authoratative voice overs (Gene Hackman, Alec Baldwin, Lawrence Fishborne, to name a few) using well crafted scripts and adding the perfect sound track, to me it’s storytelling at its best. Even if you’re not a football fan, you have...

Take a look at Catherine Hiltz’ blog Learning Excellence. Catherine is a vice-principal at a small K-12 school in southern Saskatchewan. The addition of fresh voices is critical in continuing conversations and avoiding the struggles of banality and lack of relevant, original posts. I certainly struggle with that and rely on these new voices to keep us vets...

So while listening to Stephen Downes’ presentation today from the Connectivism Conference, I admit to doing some multi-tasking. My mind drifted in and out. Not a reflection of Stephen, more of my need to get about 12 things done at once. I did focus in on a bit on his thoughts on pattern recognition. So my mind drifted from this to consider Stephen and David...