Today, Cindy’s tech colleagues are giving her a retirement party. As these things seem to go, a photo of Cindy appeared in today’s local paper recognizing one of the final projects she has worked on (GF Herald article on Books of Hope – free registration required). Cindy thought the article focused too much on her [...]
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Posted 25 May 2010
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The more recent Learning and Leading has an article authored by Judi Harris and colleagues. There are certain writers who have promoted core ideas that appeal to me and Harris is one. She has a concept – activity types – that makes sense to me as an important idea in professional development. Rather than promoting [...]
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Posted 29 April 2010
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My brother Dan is an engineer, but he has a unique hobby. He develops wildlife habitats. The “riparian” is a seventeen-acre plot developed on a farm Dan and a couple of my relatives own in Iowa. Dan hunts there some, but mostly just enjoys the challenge of restoring the habitat and watching wildlife. His new [...]
The recent release of a “best practices” guide to copyright and fair use has generated the typical echo effect among educational bloggers. It is pretty obvious from my previous comments that there is something about more and more liberal interpretation of “fair use” that annoys me. The exact source of this annoyance is difficult to [...]
Let me begin with a simple question. Would anyone notice if students learned more? It is an important question because while so many attempt to exert pressure for improvement in student (and instructor) performance I am not certain we would notice if change occurred. I will allow you to define what “learn more” means and [...]
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Posted 18 August 2008
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An interview with Clay Shirky, author of “Here comes everybody”, is available from Will Richardson (Weblogg-ed). Shirky, a college prof, has some interesting things to say about the future of education – structured and personal learning. There are some interesting comments about the mismatch between what we want schools to do and what we presently [...]
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Posted 12 July 2008
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A recent post from Museum 2.0 (I know, I know, but I suppose everyone has a 2.0 niche) considers the question of “How much time does it take“. When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little [...]
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Posted 18 April 2008
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