Videos for my blog, Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts.Think Good Thoughs, Say Good Words, Do Good Deeds.
Sometimes it's the little things that we do that make our classrooms a meaningful learning experience. This is a little tribute to my staff after a day of walking around taking pictures of things I saw that I think help make a classroom great! Thanks to the wonderful staff at DMLFNS!
Blogs as Learning SpacesI noticed as I watched this and listened to myself that the idea of a blog being a ‘learning space’ came up both when talking about my own blog and when I spoke of the classroom and what technology could do to expand the classroom space. I think that our idea of where learning happens has made a fundamental shift from book knowledge of the last century to anywhere/anytime information access of today. (Exerpt from my blog post about this video. )
An interview of Sonya, a teacher who just finished her first year teaching, where I asked her questions about POD's: Personally Owned Devices that students bring to school and our need for educators to start using them in the classroom. Interviewed for my presentation, 'The POD's are Coming' for BLC09.Background on POD's: The POD’s are Coming! BLC09
Do not go quietly into your classroom!It started with a presentation to Simon Fraser University student teachers. I created a Powerpoint presentation by the same name and put it on on Slideshare so that I could embed the show into a wik for the presentation. A number of people suggested I create a video of it. Today I did that and put it on YouTube and on the Internet Archive. One is of poor quality and the other is great, but only in streaming mode, so here I am now on BlipTV.Visit me on Pair...