Category Archives: edutech
Death by Powerpoint
I’m attending an IT conference. This is the problem. I’m enjoying the wireless connection on my laptop but my session is not inspired. I am a slide presentation snob. I do not want to read a presentation, I want to … Continue reading
Filed under curriculum, edutech
What Counts Wordle
In response to Paul, at quotereflections, I am adding to the meme which makes a Wordle from your RSS feed. I am actually kind of pleased with it. I wish I knew a bit more about the numbers which make … Continue reading
New Things
I’ve been trying out some of the applications that I heard about in the last year and didn’t have time to play with during the writing, reading, class taking of the academic year. I must admit I haven’t a deep … Continue reading
Excellent small steps
Good news on the homefront. Through the combined efforts of our administration and teacher librarians, there is now a link on every schools home page to an e-library page. Not only that the teacher librarians are going to be a … Continue reading
Trouble with Liveblogging
I tried to live blog today. For some reason when I went to save my post it was lost. I don’t know if it was a server problem or a connection problem or an error on my part. It is … Continue reading
Children’s Literature – Introduction to the Project
I’m taking a course on Canadian and Aboriginal literature for children and young people this term. My professor and I are going to be using my blog as our key point of information transfer. I have been mulling over the … Continue reading
Filed under blogging, children's lit, edutech, learning
Over-Underwhelmed – TLit – 2007
I have received some offline comments about this post and I’m stewing about them. I have thought about whether I should pull it but I’m going to try and make some adjustments to make myself more clearly understood. The adjustments … Continue reading
Personality Types and the Fringe
I’ve always been an odd duck. It was fortunate that I didn’t really look like one. I wonder how many of the teachers in the edublogosphere find that they are on the fringes. I was intriged by this idea in … Continue reading
Why Teach ICT?
Rob Darrow at California Dreamin’ had this video up to share. I want to remember I have it expect it will be better here than in my del.icio.us. Thanks to Aaron as well. Where in the world is Aaron Schmidt? … Continue reading
21st Century Skills
Janice Friesen‘s article, Giving Students 21st Century Skills in Multimedia Schools (2003) gives a quick a dirty look at the need for a new kind of assignment in school. She highlights some of the advantages of the Big Six research … Continue reading
Filed under edutech, library, literacy, research, teacher training
