Making Avatars

After reading Joyce’s post on avatars, I went to play at the make a Lego avatar site.

Quizoholic

I love online quizzes. I can’t quite decide why but I find them satisfying. I like to analyze how I’m doing and which box it will put me in. So here’s another quiz box for anyone who’s interested.

What’s your theological worldview?

You scored as a Emergent/Postmodern

You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel [...]

James gets all the fun!

My husband is a teacher and quite a fine one at that. He is energetic and funny and fair. He is well-liked by his students. Today he found out that there is a Facebook site discussing exclusively him. A student ‘leaked’ its existence to him today and we went over for [...]

8 Random Things

I find the whole meme concept quite interesting and I like to participate for it makes me feel part of things but I’m with Clarence at Remote Access, in that they resemble  a virus or at least a chain letter, which I would never dream of passing along so I’m not sure which I feel [...]

Literature, Identity and Choice

Carl Leggo, a professor on faculty at UBC, is a writer and teacher educator.  He writes marvelous autobiographical poetry and speaks his poetry in presentation as if it were a song with cadences, inflection, dynamics and articulation as one might expect of an instrument.  After hearing Carl speak at a recent conference, I asked him [...]

A colonial brain trying to be post-colonial

I have been attending Congress 2007 and am trying to process some of what I have taken in there. I have attended quite a number of workshops but most of them have carried a similar thread about the importance of telling stories, hearing stories, writing stories and talking about stories, particularly our own stories [...]

Feedback – the double edged sword

I got some excellent feedback today. Hurt like hell. I’m not good at receiving feedback. Lifelong battle to be perfect, I suppose. I have been pleased for the most part with the positive welcome I have received by the people in the blogosphere and somewhat surprised at the lack of connection [...]

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 [...]

In My Language

Maybe you have had the chance to see this video. I believe I was introduced to it via Stephen Downes pointing to Christopher at think:lab.

It is an incredible testament to the nature of intelligence. Even as I accept this woman and her ways of interacting with the world, and [...]

Virtual Identity and Personal Privacy

I am an adult using self-publishing software on the Internet and exploring the possibility of getting involved in social software, such as Facebook or Second Life. I can’t find anything definitive about what is safe for me online. I see the rules for children – “Never give your name, address, phone number, or [...]