Looking for Learning

This has been an interesting journey so far and I must add, a bit disconnected.  There are very many participants (107, I believe) situated into various groups, following assignments from the main Moodle page. As things go, I have mostly been detached from people in this activity – that is, I have been trying to [...]

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I explored Animal Island today, walked among giraffes and peacocks,  and met a new friend from Germany. She was using a translator to talk to me. She also told me about a group called Rumbled which is a social location dedicated to movie stars and singers form the 50’s era.  After that, I follwed a [...]

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This was not my first excursion in Second Life. I am a member of a few different groups, but I still don’t consider myself a veteran member. I can fly and teleport and basically find my way around. I have acquired a few item in my personal inventory such as a motorcycle and a little [...]

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A. I am your friend. I don’t work in education. You are talking to me about the idea that we all learn from each other, in all kinds of contexts, and that this can often be richer than more formal classroom based learning. I am skeptical. Tell me about an informal learning experience you have [...]

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Ning.com has many networks available. Classroom 2.0 is one of them and it has all kinds of teacher interaction going on – brand new teachers, veteran teachers, techy teachers, old school teachers, teachers from all around the world…and all sharing ideas, asking questions, seeking input, and so forth. It’s quite a large crowd [...]

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On we go. Doctoral classes are underway, and my 4th grade class has settled into the 2008-09 school year. Always a surprise with each new year… this year, Norberto arrived in our class. He speaks no English and we have absolutely no program, materials, or plan for non-English speaking students. But a challenge is [...]

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I’d played around with the free 30 second version of Animoto before, but things just got very interesting when I found out that there is yet another great deal for educators. If you request an educational code from Animoto, you can have the greater form of program access, that is, the ability to create [...]

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Video conferencing has gotten more and more sophisticated in the past few years. “It used to be so hard to do” sang some rocker in the 80’s… yes it was. I think CuSeeMe was the first video program I tried, then Netmeeting, then a short-lived thing called iVisit. My kids talked to kids in Wales [...]

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At the conclusion of our collaborative writing project, the Top Ten Writers have been named to the Hall of Fame, chosen by their peers. 1001 Tales is a multi school project which started last year, created by Clay Burrell, an American literature teacher in Seoul, South Korea. It had a high school group and an [...]

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 From the Viewfinder web site, new ways to use Google Earth and Flickr together. Interesting.

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