Posted in Summer Core, ethics on Jun 20th, 2009 No Comments »
I have been thinking about education, online life, students and teachers, and ethics quite a bit reciently. And I am probably going to go out on a bit of a limb here, and put forth a more radical version of what I think than maybe is true. But I am reacting against what seems to [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
My first try with the coolest presentation tool I have ever seen. I love Prezi, and I can tell the more I use it, the more I will be able to do with it.
http://prezi.com/109393/
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, faculty training on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
As we have worked our way through the first two days of Summercore 2009, I have been thinking about change. In some ways, like Steve B. says in Chapter 8, I thrive on change. But my love of change (the Lexus) is tempered by my love of many older things (those olive trees are great), [...]
Posted in History of Technology, Summer Core on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
After reading about ways to link to video, I thought I would share one of the stranger movies from the Computer History Museum’s YouTube channel. This film was made by IBM in 1965. Things have changed.
What I love about the videos on the Computer History Museum YouTube channel is that they are a mix of [...]
Posted in Summer Core on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Back we go into a wonderful week of technology in the classroom. But my preparation is starting with a little hardware learning. I am using a netbook, an HP Mini to be specific. So far I am really happy with it, although I am not so imporessed with the battery life. I expected to [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, Uncategorized, faculty training on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Since I started out the week thinking about the humanware excerpt, it seemed logical to read the rest of the chapter tonight. I want to start out just recording some quotations that jumped out at me as significant for Castilleja. I have put the quotations in bold so that it is really clear what comes [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, ethics on Jun 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
My thinking about community and privacy in the previous post seems separate from my thoughts on copyright. I think we are moving in the right direction here, but we need more clear direction (maybe some professional development? Not exciting, but maybe necessary.). As I said today, I think we are fine on the software, and [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
I ran a class blog for a few years, mostly as an online continuation of class discussions. It worked well some of the time, for many of the students, but it did not become fully integrated into my teaching, so when we went on another push to reduce student stress by reducing homework I dropped [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
“The key to success is increasing overall proficiency” the “Humanware” Principle #3 caught my attention because it brings together several things I have been thinking about both as a teacher and as a learner. As someone who thinks playing around with technology is just that, play, something I do for fun and for learning, I [...]
