Stephen Downes answers questions on Education and Technology
I took a brief look at my Twitter feed this morning and stumbled upon the article cited above. A number of students in an Educational Technology programme at a nearby university wrote to Stephen...
View ArticlePersonal Learning Environments
Stephen Downes made a great comment about Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) in his keynote video to Finnish educators that I commented on in my last post. He compared the social networks that...
View ArticleBook Review – The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win!
Loertscher, D. V., Koechlin, C., Zwaan, S., Rosenfeld, E. (2011). The new learning commons: Where learners win!: Reinventing school libraries and computer labs (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT: Hi Willow...
View ArticleA new year, a new project
Happy New Year to anyone who stumbles upon my blog. It was a very relaxed holiday after an intense end of semester finishing up an online search course and a course on the learning commons. Many of...
View ArticlePLE Project – Getting some traction
Exciting early days in the PLE project that I’ve been writing about of late. Recall that I’m exploring ways to leverage the power of Personal Learning Environments in a formal educational structure....
View ArticleBlogging 101
I know that when I started blogging, I was primarily concerned about getting a huge number of followers. Maybe that it’s that I don’t post regularly enough or perhaps it is that my interests are...
View ArticleMy Favourite Five of my PLE PLN
So, it’s time to put my money where my mouth is. As you may know from reading my other posts, I’ve assigned my students to collect 20 blogs on one topic and subscribe to them in Google Reader. Once...
View ArticleThe Week’s Reflections
Copyright All rights reserved by David CromptonUsed with permission. As I sit with my big cup of joe (Bugaboo from Kicking Horse Coffee Co. - if you care), I’m thinking back on my week. There were...
View ArticleSocial Bookmarking and Curating
Some rights reserved By Bête à Bon-Dieu @ Flickr.com OK, I don’t normally blog about tech tools. There doesn’t seem to be much point given that there are so many people out there who do it so well....
View ArticleReview: Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to...
Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli present a great balance of theory, anecdotes and practical advice in this book that has received wide recognition as one of the best books in educational technology...
View ArticleEducational Technology Vision: One idea
Creative Commons Some rights reserved The educational world that we live in is in a great state of change. I’m not sure that our concepts of education are going through the greatest change in history...
View ArticleThe Tipping Point
Creative Commons Some rights reserved by Grant Doig I will start by apologizing to Malcolm Gladwell. While he did not coin the phrase “tipping point,” he certainly did bring it back into everyday...
View ArticleHump Week
Creative Commons some rights reserved by j33pman This was Hump Week for our PLE Project. The half of the class that was getting course credit for their participation are on to a new course and the...
View ArticleGoogle Reader Alternative
The whole announcement around the killing of Google Reader has got me thinking a lot about what I want out of an RSS feed aggregator. I will admit that I was never crazy about the look of Google...
View ArticlePersonal Learning Environments – The Ultimate Tool
Thank you Google. Your threat to remove Reader from your toolbox (and mine) has motivated me. Even in the face of conjecture that your rethinking your decision, I’m looking elsewhere. I’m looking...
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