In the Moodle class I am running Alicia Lewis, a good friend, and co-instructor in the course, gave me a bad time about playing my beloved game Flight Simulator. This conversation started after reading Marc PenskyÂ’s “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” that I had the class read. I thought IÂ’d post my response to Alicia hereÂ…after all it is authentic information. […]
Some talk going on about edublog.org being blocked by servers. It isnÂ’t being blocked here in ChinaÂ…yet. What a great tool for educators and students. Built on the open-source WordPress blogging program the site is a great place for educators and students a like to get their blogs up and running. I use WordPress to run 3 blogging sites and […]
Great Wall Originally uploaded by jutecht. Back in Shanghai after 3 wonderful days in Beijing highlighted by a 4 hour walk on the Great Wall that both my wife and I are paying for today. I did not touch a computer or get on the Internet all 3 days, but felt more connected to history and the Earth then I […]
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating. My wife and I leave later today for Beijing to have Beijing Duck for our Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully IÂ’ll have some great pictures to share with you all when I return. All this talk about staff development has my head spinning, and I couldnÂ’t resist the temptation to pick up my thinking stick […]
The ‘millennials’ usher in a new era My friend just sent me this link. Go read it right now. I’m putting it here for my own reference. Some great quotes/research: By only their seventh birthday, most children in the United States will have talked on a cell phone, played a computer game and mastered a TV-on-demand device like TiVo, much […]
Tim where do you find the time? Another great program Tim found and one that I am really excited in Gizmo works like Skype but you can record the conversations. Plus the cost of computer to phone calls is cheap. IÂ’ve downloaded it and created an account jutecht12 weÂ’ll see how it works in China. Give me a call, just […]
I never knew I had such a following on my blog until that last post on NETS 2.0. The interesting thing for me is, I wrote that about the same time David Warlick was writing about Conversations and Will Richardson was writing about connective writing. Now IÂ’m trying to get my head around all of this. IÂ’m sure IÂ’m going […]
IÂ’m sitting in a Technology Curriculum meeting at the moment where we are looking at our student technology standards and benchmarks for our school. We, as most schools are looking at the NETS. The nets were last updated (as far as I can tell) in 2001. So, to move the NETS into the 2.0 world. I did a find and […]
After reading the Disruptive postings by John Pederson I had a thought. Anybody out there in the blogosphere wants to join the PD course IÂ’m running in Moodle? It would be great to have another disruptive factor in the class. No pressureÂ…just a collaborative thought. 😉
When I mean cross country IÂ’m not talking the U.S. IÂ’m talking across multiple countries. Yesterday, I stared a Professional Development course training teachers how to implement Moodle into their classroom. There are 27 teachers taking the course from 3 different countries. These teachers work at American international schools in China, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E. IÂ’m excited for this […]