Psssst ... I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Daniel Pink's book, A Whole New Mind, is very popular with Wilkes Instructional Media (IM) course writers. If you want to do a little advance reading in order to get the flavour of IM courses, this book is a great place to start...
[Image from: eHow: How to Learn the Theory of Psychology (Eraxion istock photo#7549747)] I love this course!!!!! It's fascinating...
[Image Source: Matt 21/07/97 at http://www.deepblue.uk.net/site/node/380] We are approaching November 11 which is Remembrance Day (in Canada) and Veterans' Day (in the US)...
Wow! I've just spent a day with over 25 talented and deeply thoughtful BC educators in a Classroom 2.0 Live unconference led by Steve Hargadon...
This week I've been reading Will Richardson, watching Larry Lessig (video below), and thinking about the events a couple of weeks back in Honduras...
Why are secondary math teachers so reluctant to try Web 2.0 tools?First I think this results from the perception that Math is qualitatively different from other subjects...
[Image Source: popeye the sailorman cartoon @ http://popeye-the-sailorman.blogspot.com/]Popeye was “strong to the finich” because he ate his spinach. Ma...
In my early years of teaching, about every three or four years, I would engage in a summer of renewal of myself as a teacher...
I am currently on a half time leave from my job...
For students, teachers and others who are musical, I found the greatest new website that I just have to share with you: Indaba Music.Indaba Music is described as "an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people...
I going to start this post by saying that for about a month I've had an unusual and unexpected bout of 'blogger's block'...
Kristine
Hey all you WU IM fans -if you are in the area come join us for Homecoming October 9-11. Check out this link for all the cool stuff going on. We'd love to have you!
http://community.wilkes.edu/s/344/index.
I picked up an item about Wordle from Jane Hart's E-Learning Pick of the Day. For those of you not yet familiar with this Web 2.0 tool, the description from their website says : "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. Th...
This morning an interesting article came to my inbox from Amit Agarwal's Digital Inspiration. This is one of the few subscriptions that I haven't yet transferred to my RSS feed -- which is probably a good thing because I haven't been reading that lately...
My brother, Eric, to whom I get closer year after year and who I think is quite brilliant in his own way, says he hates to read. This is totally surprising to me because he is a deep thinker and I associate reading and deep thought...
