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I was recently contacted by Shanthi Venkataraman, a student from Columbia University, Graudate School of Journalism, as my friend Silvia Tolisano (Around the World with 80 Schools skype project mastermind) had passed on my name as a teacher who had been using skype in the classroom for a number of years and had taken part in [...]

Do You Know Where Your Footprints Are?

Ding Ding …… Round Course Two begins for CoETaIL.Asia

Enduring Understandings:

Online behaviors and actions impact the access and safety of personal information.

Responsible use of online tools can help protect the personal information of others.

Essential Question:

When and where should we be teaching students about their digital footprint?

This weeks readings were from Kim Komondo’s Your Online Reputation Can Hurt [...]

Skype-Connection-Fest

We’re involved in Silvia Tolisano’s short, simple yet so powerful Skype project AroundTheWorldwith80Schools. In just two short weeks we have connected with seven different classrooms in four parts of the world. And we’re not stopping there! By the end of our school year, I hope to share with you that we managed to connect right around [...]

Nearest Book Meme

After having this pop up twice in my google reader first by Crucial Thought (Chris Craft) and then by Langwitches (Silvia Tolisano), I couldn’t resist ……………

You can only make rain using 1/60 sec.

(Courtesy of Understanding Shutter Speed by Bryan Peterson)

Rules:
* Get the book nearest to you. Right now.
* Go to page 56.
* Find the 5th [...]

LAN-it-Up

I love the play on words for LAN – traditionally known as Local Area Network – and it’s use lately for local educators getting together to watch and discuss the K-12 Online Conference offerings.

The extremely wonderful Kim Cofino, graciously hosted ISB’s first K-12 Online Conference LAN party last Saturday morning, in downtown Bangkok. She’d already downloaded [...]

LAN-it-Up in Jacksonville, Florida

It was an absolute pleasure to be invited by Silvia Tolisano to skype-join in the conversation at their school’s K-12 Online Conference LAN party “last night” or earlier this morning (for me.)

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

The timing was perfect – albeit they were having a wine (early evening) and I was having a coffee (early the next [...]

Favourite 5 in the Classroom of 2007

Apparently it started with Larry Ferlazzo’s “Best of the Year Lists“ but I was inspired to post by Langwitches and Dean Shareski’s recent posts about Top Stuff of 2007. It’s important for me to stress that there are so many apps, tools and various web2.0 resources out there that continue to amaze and delight me [...]