Reflections on Teaching

I love using VoiceThread with students. I find it easy to use, intuitive, and very flexible. It’s not for every situation, but what it does, letting you add photos or video, with narration or audio commentary, it does very well. I love to use it in particular ways, letting students pick pictures to add to [...]

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Here was my entry to Film on the Fly Pi Day:

Others can be found at: http://filmonthefly.ning.com/video/pi-day

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And the winners of The Edublogger’s Birthday Celebration Competition are | The Edublogger and they include this post I did on Using threaded comments to build a writing community in your classroom | Reflections on Teaching. I also did this post, More than words… | Reflections on Teaching, about using images, which Sue mentioned was [...]

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It seems this blog has been nominated for an EDDIE as the » Best Teacher Edublog 2008 in the Edublog Awards. You can click on the previous link to vote for this blog, or another if it takes your fancy (lots of great names there). I will try to live up to this nomination by [...]

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Photo Credit: Can you take a photo of my hands too! from eviemaedavid’s photostream on Flickr.
I know, I know, I’ve been an awful blogger! My feed has grown to almost 400 unread articles (yikes), I haven’t commented on a blog in a month, and my last post was at least a fortnight past. Like many [...]

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This is a much smaller affair in terms of turnout than previous Ed Tech Conferences, but it’s let me see more. See more people, see more things, and that’s good.
First, I got to see Collette Cassinelli, Dan Meyer, and I must confirm, the boy was not lying about his height, he is a tall ‘un. [...]

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I have freely admitted to “smoking tech crack” when it comes to cell phones to Larry Ferlazzo (who as always is the voice of reason on new technology, thank goodness because I have no sense sometimes). I have really been exploring using cell phones for my own productivity, and connecting with others. I will be [...]

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I’m pruning my reader list and adding a lot of new feeds after NECC. First, if I met you at NECC, and I could locate a blog you wrote on semi-regularly, I’ve added it to my feed. I’ve taken out feeds that have been moribund (no posts for over a month, and sporadically before that). [...]

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