A new record system
I’m developing a record system, cobbled from bits and pieces garnered here and there. I use manila file folders for each class (from David Allen’s excellent GTD). This holds every thing I need for today’s class, plus the previous class (e.g. homework I collected, handouts I used, plus the 1-page record sheet I use). Everything [...]
Upcoming conferences in Tokyo
For the EFL teachers in Japan, there are a couple of conferences coming up in Tokyo that I am interested in. I don’t think I can attend both, unfortunately. 1) ECAP 2007. I’ve heard Charles Browne present on vocab acquisition. He knows his stuff and is an engaging and relaxed presenter to boot. He helped [...]
Distraction – out of the mouths of babes
Steve Olson posted a link to this funny list of incomplete proverbs that a first-grade teacher gave to her kids to complete. I’m not sure I believe these were all written by first-graders, but who cares?!“Better to be safe than ….Punch a 5th grader.”is the first one, and they just get better.
more than 99% of our learning is nonconscious? Brain-based learning
Jay Cross, online champion of Informal Learning, quotes Clive Shepherd who quotes research by Dr Donchin at the U of Illinois, from 1986. This is not new news. The question is, are teachers wasting their time? Not a bad question to ask, and not just once, either, but what about assessment? If 99% of learning [...]
Yet another reason to use Firefox
or anything other than IE, really. According to the BBC, Animated cursors could prove risky for Windows users, Microsoft has warned. The software giant is investigating reports that the way Windows handles alternatives to the traditional arrow cursor can leave PCs open to attack. By booby-trapping a website or e-mail attachment with code that exploits [...]
Global Information Technology Report
The Global Information Technology Report (via Harold Jarche): Since it was first launched in 2001, The Global Information Technology Report has become a valuable and unique benchmarking tool to determine national ICT strengths and weaknesses, and to evaluate progress. It also highlights the continuing importance of ICT application and development for economic growth. The Report [...]
iMacs + iSight + Skype = classroom international video conferencing
Via NextGenTeachers blog -Kimberly Cofino, who teaches in Kuala Lumpur, linked up her IT class with students in NZ, and everyone was very excited about it. Thanks to our lovely new iMacs (with iSight built in), and Skype, we were able to video conference with our new partner class in NZ this morning. For many [...]
Homeschool carnival
David St Lawrence, ex-Silicon Valley “riches to rags” story, author of Danger Quicksand Have a Nice Day, has an entry about homeschooling: We have a lot of home schooled students in Floyd County and I am always impressed with their maturity and creativity. In my opinion, one of the absolute killer benefits of homeschooling is [...]
Teens face £50 fines for not attending class
The [UK] government wants to introduce “education Asbos” and fixed penalty fines for teenagers who refuse to stay in education or training until the age of 18, the education secretary, Alan Johnson, announced today. Sometimes I think there are two fundamental attitudes towards human nature: 1 says, humans are basically weak and evil and need [...]
Individualized feeds for tags
Dan asks for help: I want to split my RSS feeds by tags. One feed for posts tagged with “lesson,” another for the rest. A commenter explains how to do this with WordPress. It sounds really simple, and gives me an idea: I could create separate feeds for different classes, yet still post everything onto [...]
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