Posts Tagged ‘ Connections ’

A blog post, a tweet, a connection

September 4, 2009
A blog post, a tweet, a connection

I have to share this story with you if for no other reason….I’ve shared it with anyone that would listen to me at school today. I believe this story shows the power of: 1. What can happen when we allow students to be “out there”.2. What happens when our teachers become networked and can bring...
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The Stick turns 3!

September 24, 2008
The Stick turns 3!

I told this story as my 10 minute TED talk at Learning 2.008. As September 19th was The Stick’s 3 year anniversary. The Thinking Stick turned 3 a few days ago and it’s hard to imagine that it’s been 3 years since I installed Wordpress and just started writing. As I started looking back through...
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What’s your focus teaching or learning?

August 27, 2008
What’s your focus teaching or learning?

So many times we use the phrase “Teaching & Learning” but really we need to be asking ourselves: Are we focusing on teaching or learning? This came up in a discussion with Kim earlier today, (BTW….the two of us in a room for longer than 10 minutes is enough deep conversation to keep me going...
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A Lesson in Connections

February 15, 2007
A Lesson in Connections

(Cross posted at Techlearning.com) I’ve learned a valuable lesson this week. One that shows the importance of teaching our students that the connections the web creates and the content you put on the web becomes a part of you. Last year, I was reading a lot about digital stories in the blogosphere. I saw some good...
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Looking into the eyes of our students

November 25, 2006
Looking into the eyes of our students

Friday was a half day at school. A little extended weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Our High School took part in a couple different sessions. One of those sessions was by me giving a talk on “The Flat World”. I would have titled it “Your World” but the title doesn’t really matter. I had 20...
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