I have been thinking about a comment Steven Squyers made during the Friday night panel at EduCon 2.1. “What’s your missions statement.” He was discussing how the Mars Rover Project has a mission statement short, to the point and takes up less then half a sheet of paper. He said when decisions are made we refer to the mission statement, if it supports the mission then go for it, if it does not then throw it out. I have worked…
I am attending EduCon 2.1 and having a great time. My goals for this conference were to deepen the connections I have with members of my learning network and to look for ideas and strategies to facilitate changes and growth in the educational environment in my district. There are many ways to connect to the archives of the conference but the best way is to go to the conference wiki and find the links there. I am just beginning to…
This is not really education or technology related but a lot of members of the eduverse have been supporting each other in becoming more fit. For example many of us are participating in the 50 million pounds challenge on the plurkdown or twitterdown teams. Many of us are determined to re-conquer our bodies as we develop our minds. I thought I would share my fitness update. In the fall of 2007 my life hit a road bump. I injured my…
A couple of weeks back Jen Wagner tagged me in the Meeting of the Minds meme that originated with Ryan Bretag. My blog was down for a bit (host issues) and then well life got busy. So please excuse the tardy post, Jen. What 10 people would you want President Obama and Secratary of Education Arnie Duncan to engage with in a Meeting of the Minds focusing on the state of education, a vision for education and education reform? Ponder…
There has bee a lots of discussion about what it means to be literate in the 21st Century and if there is such a thing as 21st century literacy. Ryan Bretag’s The Great Literacy Debate, Ben Gray’s post 21st century confusion and 21st century clarification. There have been discussions on twitter and plurk and these lead to Will Richardson coordinating an illuminate discussion of the topic. I have never been great with semantics but I do know there are many…
I have been tagged by Fred AKA Riptide Furse. At the end of 2006 and in the summer of 2007 I was tagged by in a similar meme. It may have been the same one morphed like a game of telephone as it cycled around the eduverse. So in reading what I wrote then, I am going to bend the rules a bit and share what I wrote. They still seem relevant, and well I did not have as many…
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