I love starting off classes with “Have you seen the news?” The kids are so use to it now that some times I have students come to me before I have a chance to say it. This morning no sooner did I get the words out of my mouth when a girl in the class said, “Yep, Google bought YouTube.” […]
If you’ve actually visited my site lately you would have noticed a trail version of NeoCounter working. I saw it on another blog and thought it was cool (sorry can’t remember were) so I decided to give it a try. Pretty cool little application. You roll over the countries and it shows you a map of that country. Pretty cool […]
I sent out an e-mail today inviting 17 people who said they were interested in joining me for the conversation. I’ve copied and pasted the e-mail below for others to use and get ideas from. Be a part of something special The first every K12online Shanghai LAN party As some point in the last month you all have said […]
So we go back to school tomorrow…or rather today as it’s 12:33am as I wait to finish migrating our Moodle site. I got this e-mail from our Teentek.com administrator a couple of days ago…remember this kids 12! I’m really sorry to bother you right when you get back from holiday,Mr. Utecht, but something very bad has happened.I logged on right […]
WOW, my idea of getting a bunch of people together and taking this online conference offline here in Shanghai has been getting some attention. Glad to hear it and I hope more people around the globe will take this opportunity to show just how much things are changing. So, I thought I’d give you an update of where I am […]
Today was a PD day for our school, with tomorrow being day two. I spent most of my day today learning about Critical Friends Groups (CFG), and being trained to be a leader of a CFG. According the the web site a CFG is: ….a professional learning community consisting of approximately 8-12 educators who come together voluntarily at least once […]
My lungs are slowly returning to normal after a wonderful trip to 13,450 feet above sea level. The amazing thing to me was that I’ve spent most my life looking at Mt. Rainer in Washington State, which tops out around 14,000 ft. I was 13,450 and still looking up…way up! I’ve geo tagged the following pictures. Make sure you click […]
A student told me the other day that “going off the grid” is the new cool way to say I’m out of touch for a couple of days. It’s National Day here in China, which means starting next week we get 4 days off of school. We don’t get 3 day weekends here. Instead we save all those up for […]
So the Thinking Stick turned 1 years old on Sept. 19. I meant to post something then but time just hasn’t allowed. So seeing that The Thinking Stick is 1yrs old. I thought about how blogging has affected my life. First comment on post #10. One by a friend that I asked to comment. 🙂 Today 478 comments on about […]
Not sure where this conference is or what it is about but Vista over at Flickr has uploaded a bunch of slides from a Web 2.0 conference taking place somewhere. It’s interesting to read some of the slides.