The Final Post of 831

Well, here it is. The end of EC&I 831. Man, it feels like we just started. Anyway, lets get down to the final thoughts. My first comment is in regards to the content that was covered in this class. I think the area that had the most impact for myself was the exploration of software [...]

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Educational Site

I have just been adding to and reviewing our growing collaborative site for EC&I 831 and I am impressed. We have quickly built a site that contains much valuable information on a number of topics related to education and technology. Our site sure saves a lot of Google time looking for resources. Thanks again to [...]

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Chris Lehmann – Science Leadership Academy

I have to echo the thoughts already posted by Corey. I too enjoyed Chris’s presentation last class but find the backchanneling very productive as well. I think the highlight of Chris’s presentation was when he was talking about data driven decision making and how having poor data results in poor decision making. Currently in Saskatchewan AFLis [...]

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Thoughts on Stephen Downes

I haven’t had a chance to post my reflections on Stephen Downes’ presentation to our 831 class but it wasn’t due to lack of impression. In fact I found Stephen’s presentation to be very impressive for most part. His views on static vs dynamic relationships as applied to technology still has me scratching my head. [...]

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Australian Blog is Shut Down

Our 831 class had the extreme good fortune to chat viaUstream and Skype with educators around the world about the current events surrounding Al Upton’s blog. A quick summary for those that are not familiar with the situation is as follows. Al Upton is an educator from Australia who had his class blog shut down [...]

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Teaching for the Future or the Past?

Our administrators’ group was fortunate to have Mark Prensky’s article “Backup Education?” emailed to us by Dean Shareski. In this article Prensky talks about how teachers are not preparing their students for the future but keeping the past alive. In doing so they, the teachers, are doing a huge disservice to the students. Below is [...]

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Second Life: The Sequel

Last night was my second extended round of experimenting with Second Life. I approached the session with an open mind and to see, as an in-school administrator, if I could support this as an educational tool. Like my colleagues Connie, Dan, and Laurie, I still was not impressed with what I experienced. I feel that [...]

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Frustration

This week we had another great presentation as part of our EC&I class. Clarence Fisher was our guest who shared with us the amazing things that he is doing in his classroom. Unfortunately I had a poor connection and no matter what I tried I kept being disconnected from our Elluminate session. Frustration quickly set in [...]

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The Shareski View

One of our latest guest presentors, Dean Shareski, provided his insight on how to continue the effective use of technology within the classroom. Again the topic of networking came across in Dean’s message. I’m beginning, no convinced, that networking is the backbone to any successful integration or implementation in a educational setting. With all our [...]

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My Digital Project

My digital project is taking on a life of its own I am happy to report. For my project I decided to create a wikispace (something totally new for me) and connect a class blog to it. I designed this space to include spots for all my classes which upon my initial reflection I think [...]

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