I'm at Educon. If you're not familiar with Educon, it's a conference/conversation hosted by Chris Lehmann and the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. I was fortunate to be able to spend Thursday and Friday hanging around the school. Here's what I saw: Lots of smiles. Loud classrooms A principal's office that looked more like grand...

  We’re back with our first podcast of 2010 EdTech Posse Podcast 6.1 – No tech after 5 p.m. Mike Wesch presented at the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina earlier this week. We discussed his presentations and reflected on some of the changes that might result from educators becoming aware of his...

Konrad Glogowski was kind enough to spend an hour with teachers from my school division talking about what assessment looks like in the 21st century. I think the ideas here are going to challenge some of your thinking and give you lots to...

I'm exploring the concept of noise to signal and thought I might try a regular podcast/vodcast that provides quick tips to improve your noise to signal ratio. So in the spirit of play and exploration here is episode 1. As always, comments, suggestions, tips and critiques are...

  Tuesday evening I received a call from Rogers about my daughter's account. I was a bit shocked when she said the bill was over $900. After I finished hyper ventilating, had a very focused discussion with my daughter I sent out this tweet. The truth is the bill over two months as over $900 of which $764.13 was texting. She's had this account for 2...