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About fourteen months ago, while following an online Elluminate conversation about MOOCs between Alec Couros, Dave Cormier, George Siemens, and Stephen Downes, someone made the comment, “Jim Groom should run his ds106 Digital Storytelling course as a MOOC.” I chased down Jim Groom (University of Mary Washington) on the Twitter and the Internet, and learned that . . . → Read More: Finding a Voice … On the Radio 
We learned this evening that Steve Jobs has passed away. The founder and visionary leader of Apple, Inc. had announced a month or so ago that “the day had come when he could no longer fulfil his obligations at Apple, and that the time had come for him to step down.” Having been on . . . → Read More: Reflecting on Steve Jobs … It is clear that many significant and long-lasting effects will result from Unplug’d 2011: Canadian Education Summit 2011. Chapter 1: The Change We Need However, one of the early and tangible products to emerge from Unplug’d 2011 will be a multiple-format publication, “Why ________ Matters.” Comprised of a series of short essays written by unplug’d delegates, the . . . → Read More: Unplug’d 2011: The Change We Need Unplugd 2011 by Andrew Forgrave and Kim Crawford This past weekend, 37 connected educators from across Canada gathered in Toronto for the Unplug’d: Canadian Education Summit 2011. While we shared a few initial hours getting to meet one-another face-to-face within the relative comforts of the Toronto Westin Harbour Castle hotel, after a few hours . . . → Read More: Conversations about Unplug’d: Canadian Education Summit 2011 I’ll be honest up front — this won’t be an overly long post. For one, I’m not sitting at my desk/keyboard in my comfy office chair. For two, I’m writing this post on my iPhone, via the oh-so-wonderful WordPress app [get it], which let’s you do such magic. And for three, you may infer from . . . → Read More: New Tech Comes To Education … Slowly, But Surely The Future is Already Here … it’s just not very evenly distributed. – William Gibson Attribution Listen to the NPR Interview Nov 30, 1999 Ontario educator Doug Peterson (@dougpete on Twitter) sent out a tweet yesterday morning which immediately caught my attention, “Just blogged: Great opportunity for Ontario Teachers. Yesterday, the Ministry of Education announced . . . → Read More: The Future is Already Here US President Obama On Tuesday, September 8th, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama will address his nation’s schoolchildren, with a message of encouragement and challenge. The speech will be broadcast on cSpan and streamed live on the Internet, starting at 12:00 noon and timed to run for around 18 minutes. And you would not believe . . . → Read More: Obama's Back-to-School Address Establishing a vision to work towards is an important component of implementing and achieving positive movement forward. Without a vision, it can be all to easy to spend a lot of time doing a lot of things that don’t colletively contribute to anything. Without a shared vision, it can be truly difficult to “get all . . . → Read More: Collaborating and Leading to Promote a Shared Vision The recent appearances of Tornados here in Ontario (including both Watches and Warnings from Environment Canada in my area) have reminded me of a most excellent entry submitted to the NECC 2009 Digital Storytelling Contest. I first viewed this film back in June, while perusing the various entries, prior to attending NECC in DC. At . . . → Read More: One School's Vision OPSBA’s “What If? Technology in the 21st Century Classroom” Now with regards to a shared vision for educational technology, let me say that I’ve been trying to sort out the big picture here in my district and in Ontario for some time now. (I was involved in a Ministry of Education project for a five . . . → Read More: A Great Opportunity — and What Really Needs to Happen Next |
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