Posts Tagged ‘reflection’
Why bother breaking the mould?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 15, 2009
Steve Wheeler wrote two very interesting blog entries.
One was “Why do I bother?” which outlined why he blogged. I can relate to his reasons. Also noteworthy are Jeff Cobb’s five reasons to reflect daily and John Connell’s slow blogging.
Wheeler also wrote about breaking the mould of education, i.e. changing it radically for the better. He [...]
What is Schoolbuk?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 8, 2009
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Schoolbuk is a platform for teachers to publish resources online. It also seems to be part of a trend to mangle spelling to create some illusion of coolness. I presume that it has not spelled school as “skool” because it has some standards to uphold.
After watching the video, I wonder [...]
Teacher or educator?
Posted by: ashleytan on: December 2, 2009
Some time ago, I mentioned that a teacher was not necessarily an educator. One visitor to my blog asked me what the difference was between “teacher” and “educator”.
I think most people would use the terms interchangeably. I don’t. So I thought I’d add to what I said in reply to that visitor…
A teacher probably sees [...]
Question the model
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 27, 2009
It’s almost the end of a long teaching semester. For reasons too long and boring to mention, some of my colleagues and I had to start next semester’s teaching this semester.
The two things that usually happen at the semester’s end are I fall ill and I think about what to do next. So I type [...]
Google Forms quiz
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 24, 2009
So far my EdPsych2 classes have been using Google Docs as a platform for collaboratively written articles, personal notes and activity templates. We have also used Google Presentations for (duh!) presentations, and Google Forms and Spreadsheets for surveys and class administration. Everything has been “held together” by a class wiki hosted by Google Sites.
The going [...]
Drop by drop
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 11, 2009
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A while ago, I wrote about how important it is to slow down (or even stop) to think. John Connell referred to this as slow blogging. The video above reminded me of this.
My take home message from the video: Slowing things down allows us to learn new things about ourselves [...]
Know your audience
Posted by: ashleytan on: November 6, 2009
I just read a TechCrunch article on something called Aardvark. Aardvark looks like a promising social Q&A tool, but it was the example (below) that Michael Arrington shared that caught my eye.
I had to laugh. I also thought how this was a good example of needing to know your audience.
I read this on the back [...]
Two truths, one lie
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 28, 2009
One of the Web 2.0 tools that I have used in the ICT course is MindMeister, a collaborative, online mind/concept mapping tool. My classes used it to conceptualize the topic of cyberwellness.
The EdPsych2 course started this week. So far, I have got three out of five of my classes to introduce themselves by telling two [...]
It’s context, not isolation
Posted by: ashleytan on: October 27, 2009
I found this Vimeo video from a ReadWriteWeb article, You Can’t Squeeze Knowledge From a Pixel.
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It has little to do with education. However, it reminded me of something I try to emphasize in the ICT course that I facilitate and am now harping on in the EdPsyII course. What makes learning meaningful is context, [...]
