During TV Turn Off week I was able to spend some quality time with Knowing Knowledge. The recent book by George Siemens. Here are my highlights and thoughts: Learning is mess and chaotic pg. 41 A great line that Brian Crosby from the Learning is Messy blog talks about constantly. Learning is messy, chaotic and spontaneous…that’s why I love it! […]
I had a great all day meeting today with the rest of the Educational Technology Team. Missing our two newest members who will be joining us next year as new staff, but for the first time we had the whole Educational Technology Team together for a great conversation.Our school is in desperate need of a network overhaul. We started by […]
I’m returning this morning from my week of digital darkness. Although not complete darkness, enough so that the time away allowed me to refocus on what is important in life. My wife and I played Gin Rummy last night. The first time we’ve played in a really long time…it was nice. I’ve been disconnected before. Usually when on vacation and […]
Dear Readers, For those of you who are regular readers of The Thinking Stick, I offer my condolences. For the week of April 23rd-29th, Jeff Utecht will be unavailable to post any articles, respond to any inquiries, or leave any comments on your own blogs. This is due to his VOLUNTARY (well, almost) participation in the annual “TURNOFF WEEK†where […]
This past week a committee of International Technology Educators launched our Learning 2.0 conference that will take place next September. If you head over to the conference blog you can watch and listen too the kick off presentation that was given to vendors, companies, and educators. I had a chance to talk to some of the vendors that are excited […]
So I’ve been in Second Life now on and off for a couple days. I decided to get in here just in case the edublogger meet up decides to have a virtual meet here while at NECC. But I have to tell you…this is quiet incredible. I visited Will Richardson’s home today. I couldn’t find the door so I had […]
Listened to a great TWIT podcast on the way home today. Episode 92: The Tiki Gods They talked a lot about social networks, what makes they work, why do they work. They talk about porn sites and how do we keep kids safe…an interesting conversation from outside the educational arena. Listen to this podcast as an educators. What are saying […]
A great use of a blog from some of our middle school staff and students. Our middles school does a “Week without walls” where they go and visit other cities in Shanghai for the week. Before they left I met with the 8th grade team who set up a blog and each day have the students reflect on what they […]
My Superintendent last week: “I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.†This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a week. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment. However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we […]
Another long day but a good one over all. Taught middle schoolers how to create header images for their blogs or web sites. Taught a high school elective via video conference about wikis, tags, and rss to kick off the horizonproject. Then brought 9 new teachers into the blogosphere with an after school Professional Development opportunity. On thing that is […]