Drive: An Animation of Daniel Pink’s New Book

I don’t want this to become a blog of other people’s videos, but this one is too good to not share. I haven’t read any of Daniel Pink’s books, but I have had the good fortune to listen to him give a lecture on his book, A Whole New Mind which is an inspiration for […]

One School’s Journey into Digital Portfolios

Wow! This video is well-made and documents one school’s journey from traditional portfolios to digital ones. Thanks you for another tweet by Kim Cofino via Chad Bates for steering me towards it.

Short Portfolio Project Movie – narrated from Lawson Journalism on Vimeo.

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PLN Goodness: Tech Integration Inspiration, iTunes U and FOSS

I was a long-time subscriber to Edutopia but the magazine arrived back in Minnesota and I was living in S.E. Asia. Summer was too short to read all the periodicals waiting for me when I arrived home, so I didn’t really understand what an amazing resource Edutopia is.

This past month, following links posted by […]

Differentiating Instruction

One of the many great practices I observed at the American School of Bombay during ASB Unplugged 2010, was differentiation in action. One method of differentiating was allowing students to choose how they shared their learning. Sometimes they had to choose from a number of different tools (e.g. a presentation, a poster or a written […]

Resistance is Futile or The Power of Info Graphics

Yep. This graphic comes from a site that advertises online PD programs, but the facts on it jibe with what I’ve heard on Scientific American Frontiers and other podcasts and the sources are listed at the end.

While I find the information on it unsettling, I am saving it to add to my arsenal of […]

Our Final Student Username Solution, For Now..

I greatly appreciate all the comments on my earlier post and on Twitter regarding protocols for student usernames. I brought your collective wisdom to a meeting of the other tech coordinators and our director of IT. We had another good conversation as we tried to find a way get graduation year into the username, since […]