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 see the visuals which tell the story. Best advice I ever received [...]

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 different colours in html so I could make a custom coloured Wordle but time doesn’t [...]

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 knowledge of the finer uses for these tools but I have had a chance to [...]

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 part of developing a new look for the e-library page.  Very cool.  I am so [...]

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 frustrating though. I think I would probably just open up in [...]

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 appropriateness of this use of a blog – basic one to one communication. [...]

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 will be in italics.
I had three days of conferencing this week. I [...]

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 Clarence’s post.
I am wondering about my ‘re-entry’ into the classroom. I [...]

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? Canada, I think. Enjoyed my first trip to his site.
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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 method and mentions a few starting resources, including James Mackenzie’s FNO. This article is a [...]