If you want your brain to hurt you might want to listen. If not, go find another way to spend an hour.    Zac Chase and I talk about learning. I don't know if that sounds boring to you but Zac makes me think and challenges me about my learning project and some of the things rummaging around his brain.  Listen...

I promise I won't endure you to any more of my playing. In some ways it's hard to see much project. I think I put in close to 50 hours. I do like the fact that I now can pick up a guitar and make sounds that are not completely random. I know there are many out there who have a loose relationship with a guitar and desire to step up their playing but for many...

From January to April I'll be teaching a course called ECMP 455. It's an advanced course on using technology in education. Whatever that means.  Actually what it means is I want my students to dig deep into what teaching and learning looks like in 2012 as great teachers and great ideas come together to make learning better and richer and even...

It might help to read Part 1. I've been teaching a course at the University of Regina for over 5 years. I've taught it for roughly 12 sections over that time. I really don't enjoy the assessment process. While I've had a wack sack of training and embrace the idea of student's owning their own assessment, too many intuitional and societal barriers...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyLx67r6O0M Where's the joy? I'm a bit disappointed to see a lack of joy in my own student's learning projects. It could be my fault, I'm not sure. But for me I find great joy in this learning. I picked my project and love the process. I wish that for my students. Why isn't there joy? Maybe my forcing them...

I apologize in advance. I can't help singing when I play. It's not very pretty but that's the way it is. If it's any consolation, the video is under 5 minutes so there's that. Still having fun, still learning. Here's another 5 of my students that could use your encouragement. Whether you are an expert in any of these, leave a...