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An Old Thing in a New Way
For the past three years I’ve been tweaking this lab on flower dissection. Dissecting a flower Honestly, the first time I was going to do this lab, I thought the kids would find it extremely boring. I...
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Course 1 Final Project
Reflection of Course 1 and Project My 20% project. My Course 1 Final Project. My favorite part of the last few weeks of teaching. Sigh… As I reread this line I can just see the hearts and glitter...
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Deadlines – sometimes a necessary evil
I play around with art in my free time. I do some spray painting. I do some altered books and things like that. I used to do some ceramic sculpture. (A friend once told me I have arts-and-crafts...
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My Place in this Digital Community
Photo Credit: lynac via Compfight cc Every morning I drive the E12 – the AKLEH highway – to work. Every morning I read an electronic sign that says “Thank you for helping to keep our highway...
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“If this is a crime, then we have a whole generation of criminals.”
I’ll start by citing my source for my title: Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, said this during a speech of which I saw first saw part of in a good open source documentary film called RiP!: A...
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High Tech Bullying in the Malaysian Election
Yesterday there was a much anticipated general election in Malaysia. I, admittedly, know little about most of the politics here but what I’ve seen pop up on my friends’ phones is something I do...
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Who is Responsible for Teaching Kids to Be Safe Online?
That’s the essential question for this lesson. Who has the responsibility? I think that is like asking who has the responsibility for teaching a kid to be polite or to be wary of strangers or to work...
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How did I survive before hyperlinks?
Hyperlinks are my life Life At Work Student have to use them to turn in work. I have a google site and for each asssignment that can possibly be done electronically, I make a turn-it-in page for the...
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Course 2 Final Project
The end of round 2 of COETAIL! This one ends with collaboration. Wendy, Drew, Sharon and I decided to take this opportunity to get together in person here in KL. I had long been wanting to meet...
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20% Where are we? Where do we go from here?
I tell you what, that 20% project was the project I was most excited about in my classroom all year long. I was excited by the idea. I was excited by finding other people doing it in their...
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Visually Upset
I love the idea of studying Visual Literacy. A pleasing visual layout is highly important to me. All of my close colleagues know that once we create a document (test, quiz, activity page, etc), that...
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Little Visual Changes
Let’s start with an apology. I was very happy to have this course be about Visual Literacy. That really made me happy but when I sat down to start this course, I was in a bad place. Stressful...
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Making Info Sticky by Visualizing
By Ragesoss (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)One of my major goals/tasks/directives as a teacher is to make information stick in my students’ brains. The question then is, what...
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Making the Presentation Feel Good
Clutter doesn’t feel good A messy desk may be sign of genius but it doesn’t feel very good. My sister recently sent me an article from Medium.com entitled “Why You Should Have a Messy Desk” because,...
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Digitally Telling the Story of Learning
Photo used with permission by Mattias A. I teach a Digital Photography elective. It just lasts a trimester so we are talking about the basics here. One of the early lessons is about using your photos...
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Science + Infographics = Integration!
Wow! Infographics! I’m so ridiculously excited about infographics, I can’t even tell you. This is lighting a spark that is going to grow into a raging fire soon. I mean, I’ve seen infographics...
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In my blog post Digitally Telling the Story of Learning, I posted a presentation I use with my Digital Photography elective to introduce the idea of telling a story with photos. Here I present to you...
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Whenever I hear the word remix, I think of Girl Talk who I blogged about once upon a time in Course 2. Girl Talk has got to be the most talented remixer I know. The man is a legend. So, of course,...
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Where am I? How did I get here? Attempting to Regroup
SAMR – TPACK – Samsung – Amtrak? Where am I? How did I get here? SAMR_koping by eggib, on Flickr Is it just me or does anyone else just get lost in the lingo? I’m just going to stick to SAMR and work...
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Gamification – meh
Meh by obeyken, on Flickr I’m so sorry to say that this topic just did not light a fire under me. As a matter of fact, I was kind of turned off when reading some of the posts saying COETAIL should be...
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