Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged Connections
A blog post, a tweet, a connection
Sep 4th
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 that network to their students.3. That through connections educational possibilities are endless!
This couldn’t have come at a better time with Clint H leaving a comment on my last post about a conversation he had with his IT Director:
He has some very persuasive arguments for his ‘walled garden’ approach More >
The Stick turns 3!
Sep 24th
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 those first posts I started thinking about the journey that this blog has taken me on.
My first blog post was about a 5th grade classroom called the Polar Bear Class. The website no longer exists but this was my beginning into blogging. Talking about a class that More >
What’s your focus teaching or learning?
Aug 27th
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 the rest of the day) that what we are focusing on is not necessary student learning, but instead teachers teaching. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and take our eye off of what we’re really here for.
As we continue to support teachers using technology tools More >
A Lesson in Connections
Feb 15th
(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 examples of how they could be used in education and decided that I should try this whole digital story thing out for myself. At about the same time, YouTube was becoming more popular and I was intrigued by the power of this new social site. So I downloaded More >
Looking into the eyes of our students
Nov 25th
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 minutes with every 9-12th grader at our school I started by saying, “You are very fortunate. You get to grow up in an amazing time in history.”
I then played Karl Fisch’s Did You Know presentation with the follow slides added.
- There are 57 Million Blogs
- 100,000 new blogs created More >
