In the past 5 days here are three videos impacting the world. The Machine is Us…read Jeff Utecht’s take Brian Crosby’s class….this is what technology is for Franklin Police…to catch a thief If we still think reading and writing are the cornerstones of literacy, you might want to rethink...

I presented yesterday to the Western Staff 2007 Conference, a gathering of provincial teachers’ association executive members from 4 western provinces and territories. I recorded my presentation and right at the start I let everyone know it was being recorded and that I would be posting it later on my blog. The session went quite well, there was some good...

Two years ago today I began blogging. A post filled with deep, intellectual sweat.

As the shift towards one to one computing continues, I’m advocating we move to more laptops for teachers and students. I’m in a bit of a debate with our IT department as to what the minimum requirements should be for a laptop. Ads for laptops under $700 abound. He claims this would not work well in our environment. Here’s some of his thoughts on our...

This from David Jakes touting the beauty and power of Doritos latest campaign of using user-generated video for their SuperBowl commercial. This video is one of five finalists and it cost $12.79 and none of the creators was over 22 years old. I’m sure we’ll see more and more of a trend towards validating user generated content. We’ve already seen...