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The Week in Tweets for 2011-08-08 Today's lunch reading. http://t.co/S7NTWyp # One day, I will be good at making slidedecks. That day is certainly not today. # But a mashup of some technology use guidelines and our recent visits to the museum is coming together nicely. … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Thinking. Making. Learning.This morning I had the opportunity to visit our school district’s Camp Innovation, a summer program for Kindergarten through second grade focused on engineering and exploration and inquiry. In partnership with IBM, our district developed this two-week summer experience. Here’s … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
“Interactions with Technology Should Be Playful.” (Yep.)So I’m giving a short “setting the mood” talk today to a school that is up to some interesting work. They’ll be spending the next couple of days working through some play and exploration around many of the tools available … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
#ISTE11: #engchat Reflection# Engchat 2011 from Ben Grey on Vimeo.1 # Special thanks to Ben for spending time capturing this work. #Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-06-13Four tens start today. Wakey. Wakey. # Relistening to a conversation on civility. Reminded to approach all difference with gentleness and reverence. So difficult, but so right. # I'll never be done trying to do that better. # @SVVSDLibraries Enjoy. … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Shifted Learning InterviewLast Friday, I had the good fortune to spend some time talking writing and learning with John and Julia on the Shifted Learning Podcast. We discussed writing process, tools and the National Writing Project, among other things. It was a … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-05-23Not sure I understand the motive behind mean spam. Odd. http://t.co/hYZOgz1 # We are looking for an instructional technology coordinator in St. Vrain. Come join us. http://t.co/eRfjeAa # @ChrisVacek Fixed. in reply to ChrisVacek # @sjciske Yep. Growing the team. … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-04-18Free course for St. Vrain staff on working with the new standards. Sign up now, St. Vrainers. http://t.co/KNa0pPL # Wondering as I read. http://t.co/a2vaumL # . @milobo brought Jerome "Google Lit Trips" Berg to the lab leader meeting today. I … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-04-11@crafty184 Go get 'em. in reply to crafty184 # @crafty184 High fives all around, Doctor. in reply to crafty184 # Editing video. Lots and lots and lots of video of principals talking about their learning. Worth doing. # @raffelsol End … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: On Love and TeachingTwice in the last forty eight hours, the subjects of love and of teaching have been juxtaposed in conversation I’ve overheard. I’m pretty thick, but I feel like I should pay attention to the synchronicity. # Here’s the first, from … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-03-07@ScottElias Congratulations. in reply to ScottElias # @teach42 Howdy, Ruby. Welcome. It's nice here. You're in good hands. Be good to your folks. in reply to teach42 # Our district's learning principles. I wonder how many of our teachers use … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-02-28@timlauer @jutecht Stink. Sounds right. in reply to timlauer # @MrMacnology Naw. Writing's better with snacks, but we'll have just had breakfast. Bring some extra. in reply to MrMacnology # @ewanmcintosh @jutecht @shareski Happy to help. in reply to ewanmcintosh … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-02-21@courosa Many happy returns, Alec. Enjoy the day. in reply to courosa # Looking forward to facilitating and celebrating lots of writing at #ITSC next week. See you there? # @shareski Me, too. in reply to shareski # Pitched an … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2011-01-31One last safety check. http://twitpic.com/3t14b3 # Ms. the Teacher gives a video report on my skiing proficiency. http://twitvid.com/CZYNV # Lunch. Watching Ani meander. Pretty cool. # Another report from the lift. Inspired by @jonbecker. http://twitvid.com/RMUKJ # My body hurts but … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Infrastructure MattersToday’s podcast is an excerpt of Troy and Sara and my Reports from Cyberspace conversation at NCTE’s 2010 Annual Convention. Specifically, this is my prepared section of the presentation, which I’ve called “Infrastructure Matters.” # Infrastructure does matter, and it’s … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Infrastructure MattersToday’s podcast is an excerpt of Troy and Sara and my Reports from Cyberspace conversation at NCTE’s 2010 Annual Convention. Specifically, this is my prepared section of the presentation, which I’ve called “Infrastructure Matters.” # Infrastructure does matter, and it’s … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: USDoE Listening Session at NCTEIn this podcast, recorded on my last day at the NCTE Annual Convention, I share a recording of a listening session hosted by NCTE. In the session, the U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach, Peter Cunningham, … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-11-22Giant white flakes gently drifting down. Surprise snow. Beautiful. # Internet safety conversation went well. Lots of concerned parents. Biggest takeaway – it's all about modeling. # Paying bills. # Need to be writing. Nothing to say at the moment, … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-11-08Spending the day embedded at Blue Mountain Elementary. Who knows what the day holds? Should be fun. # @MrChase Oops. in reply to MrChase # NWP's Digital Is website is live. Should be fun to watch it grow. http://digitalis.nwp.org/ # … Continue reading →Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Secretary Duncan Honors Favorite TeacherUPDATE – Tim points out in the comments that this video first went online back in April. Which is cool. I sometimes reuse my good work, too. Over the weekend, I asked Secretary of Education Arne Duncan how he would be honoring the National Day on Writing. This morning, the ED.gov blog had a short [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
You Can Write If You Want ToTomorrow is the second annual National Day on Writing, a day all about, in the words of NCTE: In light of the significance of writing in our national life, to draw attention to the remarkable variety of writing we engage in, and to help writers from all walks of life recognize how important writing is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Clock’s TickingRight now, according to Sir Ken Robinson, my children are at the peak of their divergent thinking abilities. And those will diminish as they advance in their schooling. Uh oh. So, how do we build schools that amplify, rather than eradicate, divergent thinking? This is not an idle question. Watch the video and then help [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: We Shape the Tools that Shape UsIn tonight’s podcast, recording on the way home from a thoughtful meeting, I talk a little bit about a project I’ve been working on, how it’s reminding me about how tools get made and then make the people who use them, and what that might mean for some online school development in the school district [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-07-26@PaulWHankins I'll see you there. Looking forward to it. in reply to PaulWHankins # @anderscj I've got that book on my desk. Keep going back to it. in reply to anderscj # @willrich45 What should we advocate for instead of achievement? (What's the right word or phrase?) in reply to willrich45 # @paulawhite _The Children's [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Some Questions on CompositionI’m sitting at Denver International Airport this morning, waiting to board a flight to Austin, Texas, and the first meeting of a curators group on a project I’m involved in with the National Writing Project. The goal of my piece of the project is to help create a website, called “Digital Is,” that attempts to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: ISTE 2010 Final Brain DumpIn today’s podcast, recorded during my drive home from ISTE’s final activities, I talk a bit about Tuesday and Wednesday of the conference. There’s talk of the filtering panel I was fortunate to get to sit on, Howard Rheingold’s resources on crap detection, and also some of my thinking about how we must work to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: ISTE 2010 Monday Brain DumpIn this podcast, recorded on my way in to the ISTE 2010 conference this morning, I talk through my conference experience so far. I mention the Leadership Bootcamp, some of Chris’s thoughts about events like those, a conversation I’m having with Dean about digital writing, and some other highlights, as well as a concern I [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Bloggin’ in the RainOn today’s podcast, I attempt to answer a series of Twitter questions from Nawal about how to promote writing environments that help students to write connectively (as Will calls it.) I also rant a bit about “blogging units” (I’m against ‘em.) Somewhere in there, I reference George Hillocks’ really excellent metaanalysis of composition instruction studies [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
It’s Alive. And I Like It.Anne Collier’s sharing a new report on online safety and technology, “Youth Safety on a Living Internet.” I wasn’t eager to see yet another report, as I’ve read a few – but as I skimmed the first several pages, I understood why she was excited by the work. She was the co-chair of the Online [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-06-07I offer thanks today both for and to those whom serve. I am grateful. #
I offer thanks today both for and to those who serve. I am grateful. #
Sausages up. Two rounds. One chicken. Other pork. Cheese makes appearances in both rounds. #
@NovelDame Because we appreciate it. in reply to NovelDame #
Liking Egretlist as a [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: A Little More Social (Learning)Today’s podcast, recorded last week, is a response to some comments on the “learning is social” conversation. I’ll let you give that a listen, then let’s talk some more. Next up for me, in this conversation, is Claudia’s post. I’m still working through Stephen’s thoughts on the subject, spoken just before and transcribed and published [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Motivation, Cash & Literacy: I Despise AR. Should I?This is first draft thinking if ever such a thing existed. And it’s selfish. And personal. And close to home.
Ani goes to Kindergarten in the fall, so we spent the winter investigating schools around our town. We were looking for places that felt right for us – evidence of care and thoughtfulness, ties to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
SVVSD Responsible Use Policies Are Changing (But Not Just Yet)During the St. Vrain Valley School District’s school board’s meeting this week, our boss, Executive Director of Instructional Technology Joe McBreen, shared with the Board a draft of our freshly revised and significantly re-written policies regarding computers, responsible behavior, and the Internet. The policies are still in draft form, and will change a teeny [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-03-15
Following up in a bit with Rep. Markey's office. Just to make sure they got my message. http://bit.ly/9BEmPY #
Had a nice chat with Rep. Markey's office. Will hear back later in the week. #
@cribchronicles @schinker You should at least scan the document for key terms and phrases like "duct tape" or "barbituates." in reply to [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Purposeful TransparencyIn today’s podcast, recorded on my way into town this morning, I talk about some of my learning and thinking from Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation. Specifically, it’s a chance to respond to a question Zac sent my way regarding just what I meant when I said in my presentation on show and tell that [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-02-22
Caring. Library style. http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/02/14/creating-a-culture-of-caring/ #
Trying to explain tricky lactation issues over the phone to a clerk at a big box store is a fascinating communication task. My bad. #
@stardiverr I needed some very particular supplies late on a Sunday night. Had very few choices. None, it turns out. in reply to stardiverr #
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The Podcast: Pre-Baby Brain DumpToday’s podcast, recorded on my drive in to Longmont this morning, is a quick brain dump of several of the things that I’m thinking about as I head into new baby time. Mostly for me, this was an attempt to capture some ideas before they slipped away as well as to offer the change for [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2010-01-04
Ani is five today. Wow. That happened fast. #
@vtdeacon Shh. in reply to vtdeacon #
Happy birthday, Ani. http://twitpic.com/vm7ie #
Colorado's Race to the Top plan summary. Huh. http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdegen/downloads/FederalStimulus/20091228RevisedPlanSummary.pdf #
Still worming hard at hardly working. And mostly succeeding. Pizza and cupcakes with Ani's same birthday friend. Then some more reading. #
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The Week in Tweets for 2009-11-29
CyberCamper & WMS's Roger Powley on the front page of today's paper talking about his use of the SVVSD Virtual Campus. http://j.mp/8E9HW4 #
That's our district's Moodle. Cool way to come back from #ncte and #nwpam09 and talk of blended learning environments. http://j.mp/8E9HW4 #
@yoopertechgeek @hickstro Safe travels. What a thoughtful visit. Looking forward to the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: I’m Writing Right NowToday is the National Day on Writing, which is the reason for this podcast, recorded as I headed home thinking about the writing I’ve been up to today. I’m so grateful for this time to think about writing and its place in my life. What a wonderful expression of the power of language [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-12
@dwarlick Thanks – that was just the post I was looking for. in reply to dwarlick #
Starting the morning with a 90's dance party. Because every Monday should start that way. #
H1N1 sounds so clinical. I think we're going to refer to this thing as "90's Morning Dance Party Flu." #
@jenorr Ew. in [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: EtherPad & Collaborative WritingIn today’s podcast, I talk about a little collaborative writing experiment that I began last week, what I think worked, what perhaps didn’t, and share some of my thinking about why such things might be important. Certainly a first draft thinking podcast. Here’s the original EtherPad document, still available for editing and revision, as well [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Why TechnologyBen Grey asked me if I’d be willing to respond to his recent post entitled “Why Technology.” I tried to do so in today’s podcast, although I don’t think I broke any new ground or said anything I haven’t said before. (Such a ringing endorsement, huh?)
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I’ll Miss You, Rocky. Thanks for Everything.Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.
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The Podcast: Worth KeepingToday’s podcast is a continuation of some thinking that came out of a roundtable conversation that I had at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation. Karl reminds me that I’ve been forgetting to share here on the blog lately. I’ll try to do better.
As always, I’m interested in your thoughts.
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The Podcast: Sharing FlipchartsOn this podcast, recorded during yesterday’s commute, I share a little bit about the meeting I was driving home from, a conversation about how best to share resources across districts in the middle of an environment that encourages a different sort of sharing. I then layout my idea for a possible sharing tool. As always, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
The Podcast: Sharing FlipchartsOn this podcast, recorded during yesterday’s commute, I share a little bit about the meeting I was driving home from, a conversation about how best to share resources across districts in the middle of an environment that encourages a different sort of sharing. I then layout my idea for a possible sharing tool. As always, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation (2009 Edition)Well, we did it earlier this year and most folks asked us to put on a 2009 edition, so we’re doing it again.
You are invited to attend the Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation Conference (2009 Edition).
What is Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation?
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The Podcast: Why I’m Not a Fan of Free (At School) (Infrastructure, I Mean)UPDATE: In the comments below, Mike advocates for free versions of desktop software. I am completely in favor of those options for students and schools. I also like free and open source software for digital infrastructure. (Both the software packages I mention in the podcast are free and open source tools.) The “free” I’m talking [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |