It’s the day before Spring Break and so it’s relaxed here in the computer lab today. The student’s spent the first half of the period reading and commenting on student blogs from around the world. The second half I’ve allowed them ‘free time’ to explore and do a little research. – A student found this video which is now slowly […]
Since Monday all blogger blogs have been blocked by China. It was good knowing you all for the past 5 months while blogger has been unblocked. It became unblocked when Google switched over to the new system and changed the IP address on its blogger server. This week China decided to block it again. Don’t worry the RSS feeds still […]
This week at techlearning I’ve continued the conversation I started last week about the Problem with Blogs. After reading and reflecting on the comments left by others…I’ve updated my thinking on the subject and give further thought to some of the comments. Here’s a taste of the new image: Read the rest here. [tags]conversations, blogs, 21st Century Learning[/tags] Technorati Tags: […]
A great posting today on U Tech tips from Shaun McElroy on Classrooms as studios. Some great links to some great information. Let me give you a couple of hints:Everything movesErgonomics people, ergonomicsFlexible spacing1:1 computingwhere are the wires? Check out the whole post here. Worth your time to follow the links as well. I’m in the middle of it and […]
I haven’t had time to do a lot of blog reading lately, hence the 900 unread feeds on my netvibes page….ug. I have however been playing with a couple of new tools…well, new to me anyway. I don’t get twitter. Really I don’t. My wife just keeps saying “This is so stupid” which pretty much sums it up. But for […]
A teacher at our high school is running a Poetry Competition. The students post their poems on a blog for all to read. If you have some time with your High School class, it might be a nice assignment to read and respond to some of the blogs there. I’ve read a couple of them and some are very well […]
China to expand ‘Great Internet Firewall’ AFP March 13, 2007 BEIJING — China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and Webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday. [tags]China, Firewall[/tags] Technorati Tags: China, Great Firewall, Firewall
I posted awhile back about moving our learning site to a dedicated server. Well the paper work should be in later this week and next week I should be able to start migrating the site…depending on how fast I can learn how to mange a Linux server..which I’ve never done before. I feel a steep unlearn relearn curve ahead. I’ve […]
You hear all the time about how fast Shanghai is growing, and how fast they are/can build stuff in this country. Well here is a great example. They broke ground on our new high school sometime early January when we were away on Winter holiday. The school will be finished in August when students arrive. That’s 8 months to build […]
You know when you’ve been Geek!ed! when listening to a podcast becomes workout music! It’s sad really I know. But it makes 30 minutes on the treadmill fly by! I’m a couple episodes behind right now, which isn’t a bad thing because I can listen to a Geek!ed! podcast both days I run. This week I was listening to episode […]