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I found this site the other day and just love what it does with a twitter search. It would make a great backdrop to a workshop or display with tweets coming up as they’re received. Unfortunately WordPress.com blogs don’t allow iFrame embeds, so I can’t make it look funky. Click on the image to see … Read more
Read any column about musicians and they’ll invariably be asked about their inspirations & influences. Listen to their music and you can probably hear the influences they mentioned. I got to wondering about where I get my inspiration and influences from for the work I do. Do I just derive previous work in PE, or professional learning, … Read more
My TweetPost tweet this time sent me off to an interesting article on…no…see if you can guess what it’s about. It was a “List” article. You know, where the author gives you a list of ideas they think are useful. I normally give up reading these articles because they tend to be vapor (i.e mainly … Read more
I don’t know about you, but I don’t always have time to check out links from Twitter, especially when I’m in the run. I really appreciate the Favourite function, which allows me to come back and read stuff later that looked intriguing. So, once a week, I’m going to do a short post on a … Read more
Communism– a political and economic theory proposing the replacement of private ownership of goods or capital with common ownership and distribution upon need. (“Communism.” -Ologies and -Isms. 1986. Encyclopedia.com. 25 Feb. 2012) Capitalism – In a capitalist economic system most productive assets are held by private owners, and most decisions about production and distribution are made by the … Read more
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to … Read more
I was having a conversation with a colleague in the car the other day. We were talking about someone losing an iPhone. My mate said “he should have Find My Phone activated, cause then he’d find it easily” The fact that at that particular moment we were moving along in the car got me to … Read more
I’m at a leadership workshop with Alec and George Couros, and as part of a reflection exercise the task I need to complete is to create a “sentence” that is “me”. I like “Seeing the big picture, I will have a crack and try to bring people along with me” It’s an interesting exercise to … Read more
In the job I’m currently working in, I’ve had plenty of information coming over my desk and through my screen on what modern education looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like. Edu thinkers are not only calling for change, but many are stepping up and going about bringing that change into reality. My thoughts … Read more
It”s been a while since I posted here, and a lot has changed since then. Change. My original motivation to blog was to share stuff that I was doing in the classroom, and avoid excessive navel gazing. The classroom and what I discovered I could do there, with the 1:1 blessing that the Digital Education … Read more