March Madness in Moose Jaw

Mar 16

March Madness in Moose Jaw

Moose Jaw is hosting Hoopla, the provincial High School basketball tournament. There are over 50 teams representing boys and girls in 6 different school size groupings. I’ve been involved in setting up streaming video from 2 of the 5 locations. You can watch your choice of 2 games live Thursday evening beginning at 6PM CST and again Friday at 4PM and all day...

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Why don’t you/they blog?

Mar 14

Will Richardson points to comments made by some promienent educational technologists and their description of blogging. What got me going was when Hall Davidson said “Blogs are online journals when done right” and then added that it’s “not a format that going to pull anything else out of you” compared to more traditional tools. David Thornburg had an...

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Blogs are like Sharks

Mar 13

Blogs are like Sharks

If you make presentations, you need to be subscribing to Presentation Zen. As part of a recent post on using clear visuals, this example of an effective visual was used. Meaning? Blogs must keep moving or they die. Constantly in motion. As someone who has gotten a lot of blogs going for people, I’ll use this image/analogy as part of my routine. When I say to...

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Life in 2015

Mar 09

As we try to help our students and teachers understand the importance of information literacy, it’s often a difficult task to visual the future. Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson have created a history of media video from 2015. It begins in the late 1980′s as the internet as a public media begins. It proposes some interesting possiblities about the future...

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Martha Blogs

Mar 06

Martha Blogs

When your seven year old wants her own website, what do you do? Check out marthastories.blogspot.com

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