The quarter ends on January 12, so my 6th and 7th graders are working on their final projects. Technology is only a semester long class, so this project is worth about 20% of their grade. 6th Grade is creating web sites about Internet Safety. They have to create an index page and then 3 sub pages dealing with Internet Safety. […]
A presentation to Middle School parents around technology and their children. Helping parents understand that today’s students are different. Their brains process information differently and the digital world they live in is different then the world we grew up in. Shift happens, and learning to deal with the changes facing our world and how to help your child be successful […]
Funny how you never know where you mind will go. I meant to leave a short comment on Warlick’s post about Leaving Flock and ended up writing a three paragraph comment. It just kind of happened. Here’s part of the comment that I want to expand on: I know a lot of people who tried using Flock, me included, who […]
It’s funny how when you spend time like I have the past 3 days to make a point to comment on others that you start reflecting and things start clicking. I left a couple comments that ended this way. I hate to write, but love to blog! The question is why? I’ve never been a good writer, I’ve hated writing […]
My wife is at a conference in Taipei, Taiwan this weekend (another stamp in the passport) which mean I’m left here all alone with my computer. That’s usually not a good thing. I’ve been wanting to change the look of The Thinking Stick, so today I dove in, found a nice theme that I could work with and spent the […]
Looking for a little help. We’re trying to embed YouTube videos on teentek.com. Anyone know how to do this? Thought is was as easy as copy and pasting the code, but that doesn’t seem to be working. The best part is the students just keep saying: “It works that way on xanga.com, you just Ctrl C, Ctrl V the code […]
Wrote this article for our parent community. Thought I’d share. I plan on podcasting the presentation. If all works out, I’ll upload the audio with the PowerPoint after the presentation next Wednesday. [tags]article[/tags]
As I’ve been reading the book Knowing Knowledge the concept that George Siemens presents of offloading content and information into the network is finding a place with me. I’ve been thinking about this for days now and how my netvibes page has become my network of information. No longer do I have to learn something just in case, but instead […]
So in about mid October I installed our own installation of Elgg. I did it for two reasons: 1. It integrated with Moodle which we already use. That way if a student had an account in Moodle already, they could us the same username and login to get started using Elgg. The two would be linked giving more flexibility for […]
You can find the other posts here and here. From the book Knowing Knowledge by George Siemens the things I’ve highlighted. Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known. p. 31 Learning and knowing are constant, on going processes (not end states or products). p. 31 A constructivist view of learning, for example, suggests that we […]