I discovered some students in a local school have begun an “underground blog” to discuss school issues. I sent the URL to the principal and he was already aware of it and figured he knew who was behind it.  He sent an email to the students. Here’s an excerpt. I do appreciate the recent gestures that you are making with your blog.  I feel that it...

I’m please to announce a great upcoming event being held in Moose Jaw, SK on Monday, August 25, 2008. Our school division will be hosting a day long event with Ewan Mcintosh. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Ewan’s work, he is outstanding advocate of social media and has been involved with Scotland’s very progressive curriculum...

With all the concern and debate over freedom and privacy, how about turning the tables? This band couldn’t afford cameras to create a music video, so the used 80 of the over 13 million security cameras in the UK to record this music video. …..they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information...

Doug Johnson’s been thinking again, I thought of this yesterday when attending a presentation by Michael Wesch of The Machine is Using Us fame. (Great presenter and message, BTW). At the end of the keynote, I had an entire page of handwritten notes, which has become unusual for me. Why? My laptop’s battery was dead and the lecture hall had zero electrical...

This podcast goes way back to 2006 when I first interviewed Darren, Clarence and Kathy. Since that time, I interviewed them last year as well have had the three of them talk to a couple of my classes and various other PD events. Here are the links to the other podcasts in case you missed it: Darren 2006 Clarence 2006 Kathy 2006 All three 2006 All three 2007 The...