This video showcases a new little strumming drill I learned as well as highlight some others diving into a musical learning project.  Shannon Smith Alan Levine Bryan Jackson   If you want to participate in helping others with their learning project, considering gifting one or more of my students with a little comment, whether or not you're an expert...

I'm honored to be providing the pre-conference keynote for the 2010 K12 Online Conference. I've been involved in this conference since its inception in 2006 in various capacities and believe it to be not only a wonderful resource but a great model of sharing and generosity that epitomizes what networked learning can be. While I'm sorting through a few...

Inspired by Doug Peterson, who was inpsired by ZeFrank that then inspired Stephen Downes and others I’ve created a little video of my life growing up in Morden, Manitoba.  Thanks to the every growing database of Google Streetview, it’s now reaching even small towns like the one I grew up in. This one’s mostly for me. Yet, it’s been...

Part of me wonders if I should post this or not as most people tend to save their blogs for less personal, more professional stuff. Oh well, I’ve never been one to stick to the rules that closely. After 7 years, we have to put our dog Rudy down today. It was a difficult decision, one we’ve been delaying for quite a while but we realize it is the one we...

You know when someone is doing a workshop and they have people shoutout on Twitter telling them where they live and how they use Twitter? Of course you do. You’ve likely been on on side of that or the other more times than you can count. It’s my turn. Later this month I’ll be doing my own little presentation on Twitter for local teachers. I’m...